CVE-2016-6503

Publication date 6 August 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wireshark	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

How can I get the fixes?
What do statuses mean?

Notes

sbeattie

windows only

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://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;a=commit;h=581a17af40b84ef0c9e7f41ed0795af345b61ce1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/3
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6503