What is CVE-2016-4415?

CVE-2016-4415 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wireshark, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2016-05-01.

How severe is CVE-2016-4415?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Wireshark

CVE-2016-4415

wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 incorrectly increases a certain octet count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2016-05-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wireshark — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-12.html (Vendor Advisory)
code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail (Exploit)
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4415?: CVE-2016-4415 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wireshark, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2016-05-01.
How severe is CVE-2016-4415?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.