CVE-2016-5352: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

epan/crypt/airpdcap.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles certain length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (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; version 2.0.3 only

Published 2016-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.