Record summary

CVE-2016-6504 has a selected CVSS score of 5.9 (medium); EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc in the NDS dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.13 does not properly maintain a ptvc data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBWireshark 1.12.0 < 1.12.12 - NDS Dissector Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Chris BenedictNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

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