CVE-2016-5351

medium

Description

epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.12 and 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles the lack of an EAPOL_RSN_KEY, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-30.html

https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/9b0b20b8d5f8c9f7839d58ff6c5900f7e19283b4

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-6302

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11585

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91140

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/3

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3615

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-08-07

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H