CVE-2016-5352

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles certain length values, which 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, 2.0.2, 2.0.3

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/3
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91140
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12175
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/b6d838eebf4456192360654092e5587c5207f185
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-31.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/3
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91140
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12175
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/b6d838eebf4456192360654092e5587c5207f185
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-31.html

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