CVE-2016-6503

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CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

EPSS

6%p93

Published

Aug 6, 2016 (Aug 6, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: wireshark
Products: wireshark
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (6.4%)

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