CVE-2016-4415: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 incorrectly increases a certain octet count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only

Published 2016-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.