CVE-2016-5358: Oracle Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

epan/dissectors/packet-pktap.c in the Ethernet dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles the packet-header data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only
• 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.