CVE-2016-7178

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3