CVE-2016-5356 PUBLISHED

wiretap/cosine.c in the CoSine file parser in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.12 and 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles sscanf unsigned-integer processing, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.

EPSS 0.87% · 75.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.87%
75.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSwireshark0, 1.12.7+g7fc8978-1, 1.12.8+g5b6e543-2
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSwireshark0, 1.10.6-1, 1.10.2-1

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