CVE-2016-6503

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 on 64-bit Windows platforms do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options, 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, 2.0.4

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92162
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036480
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=581a17af40b84ef0c9e7f41ed0795af345b61ce1
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40196/
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92162
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036480
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-39.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495

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