CVE-2016-6513: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c in the WBXML dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.5 does not restrict the recursion depth, 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.