CVE-2016-6503

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6503

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6503.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6503

Published

2016-08-06T23:59:00.150Z

Modified

2026-07-08T12:41:18.490374Z

Severity

5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Events

Introduced

9a73b827b22c7ce9132e939b9f07ec4425fc2aa6

Last affected

dd7746e6f1b034048cd986ca6f44291e712cc1fc

Database specific

{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.4"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.4"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*

2.0.0

2.0.1

2.0.2

2.0.3

2.0.4

v2.*

v2.0.0

v2.0.1

v2.0.1rc0

v2.0.2

v2.0.2rc0

v2.0.3

v2.0.3rc0

v2.0.4

v2.0.4rc0

wireshark-2.*

wireshark-2.0.0

wireshark-2.0.1

wireshark-2.0.2

wireshark-2.0.3

wireshark-2.0.4

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6503.json"

Git / gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark