vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2016-5358 : Ethernet dissector crash

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 7, 2016
Added
Oct 4, 2017
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-pktap.c in the Ethernet dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles the packet-header data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Solution

wireshark-upgrade-2_0_4
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