CVE-2016-6512: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

epan/dissectors/packet-wap.c in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 omits an overflow check in the tvb_get_guintvar function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet, related to the MMSE, WAP, WBXML, and WSP dissectors.

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.