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CVE-2016-4415

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 incorrectly increases a certain octet count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1

References

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11795
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=647
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html

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