CVE-2016-6503: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CORBA IDL dissectors in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 on 64-bit Windows platforms do not properly interact with Visual C++ compiler options, 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; version 2.0.4 only

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