CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7178
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
epan/dissectors/packet-umts_fp.c in the UMTS FP dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.6 does not ensure that memory is allocated for certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write access and application crash) via a crafted packet.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.0
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.1
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.2
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.3
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.4
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.5
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3671 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036760 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12751 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/17094 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=315bba7c645b75af24215c6303d187b188610bba code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-53.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3671 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036760 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12751 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/17094 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=315bba7c645b75af24215c6303d187b188610bba code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-53.html Vendor Advisory