The USB subsystem in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.12 and 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles class types, which allows remote attackers to cause a…

Description

The USB subsystem in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.12 and 2.x before 2.0.4 mishandles class types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-476 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12356 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-33.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20160609 Re: CVE Request: wireshark releases (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/2cb5985bf47bdc8bea78d28483ed224abdd33dc6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-3615 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 91140 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2016-5354](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-5354.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-5354)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 01:00 UTC.