PT-2016-7254 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Mto…@‍Pen… · Published 2016-09-09 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-7178

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 prior to 2.0.6

Description The issue is related to the UMTS FP dissector in Wireshark, where it fails to allocate memory for certain data structures. This can be exploited by remote attackers using crafted packets, leading to a denial of service through invalid write access and application crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.6, update to version 2.0.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1965

CVE-2016-7178

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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7178 · 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7178 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1174-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1965 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-53.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wireshark · Vendor Advisory
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/17094 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11409 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7177 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7180 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7178 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7178 · Security Note