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CVE-2016-4420

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The NFS dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1

References

• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-17.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-17.html

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