PT-2016-7253 · Alt Linux+2 · Alt Linux+2

Mto…@‍Pen… · Published 2016-09-09 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-7177

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 2.x through 2.0.5 ALT Linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a buffer over-read and application crash, via a crafted packet. This is due to the lack of restriction on the number of channels in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.x through 2.0.5, update to version 2.0.6 or later to resolve the issue. For ALT Linux, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1965

CVE-2016-7177

DLA-632-1

DSA-3671-1

MGASA-2016-0321

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1174-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1442-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Wireshark

References · 345

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7176 · Security Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-52.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3671-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1174-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7177 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1965 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7177 · Vendor Advisory
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/17096 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7177 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wireshark · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11409 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7177 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7177 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7177 · Security Note