It was reported that Wireshark could crash. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash 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=12175 External References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-31.html
CVE assignment: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/510 Upstream fix: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/b6d838eebf4456192360654092e5587c5207f185