CVE-2016-7178

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3671
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036760
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12751
https://code.wireshark.org/review/17094
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=315bba7c645b75af24215c6303d187b188610bba
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-53.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3671
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036760
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12751
https://code.wireshark.org/review/17094
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=315bba7c645b75af24215c6303d187b188610bba
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-53.html

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