CVE-2016-6505

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 7.7%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 6

1st PoCAug 3

exploitation probability

7.7%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c in the PacketBB dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.13 and 2.x before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12577 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=94e97e45cf614c7bb8fe90c23df52910246b2c95 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40197/http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3648 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92163 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036480 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-41.html