CVE-2016-7179

medium

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-catapult-dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

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

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

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-54.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3b97fbddc23c065727b0147aab52a27c4aadffe7

https://code.wireshark.org/review/17095

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12752

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-09

Updated: 2025-04-12

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