VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4420

medium
Published 2016-05-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

The NFS dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1
sid Fixed 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1
forky Fixed 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1
bullseye Fixed 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1
bookworm Fixed 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark2.0.0
wiresharkwireshark2.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.