CVE-2016-6505

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.12 Wireshark versions 2.x through 2.0.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and application crash, via a crafted packet. This is related to the PacketBB dissector in the epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c file.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.12, update to version 1.12.13 or later. For Wireshark versions 2.x through 2.0.4, update to version 2.0.5 or later.