CVE-2016-4077: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

epan/reassemble.c in TShark in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.3 relies on incorrect special-case handling of truncated Tvb data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only

Published 2016-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.