CVE-2016-4416: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 mishandles the Grouping subfield, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only

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