Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1312799
CVE-2016-4419 wireshark: SPICE dissector large loop (wnpa-sec-2016-16)
Last modified: 2016-08-12 02:04:10 EDT
It was reported that Wireshark's SPICE dissector could enter a large loop. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash or consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. Upstream bug(s): https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12151 External References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-16.html
CVE assignment: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/177