CVE-2016-7178

medium

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.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-53.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=315bba7c645b75af24215c6303d187b188610bba

https://code.wireshark.org/review/17094

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12751

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036760

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3671

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-09

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium