CVE-2016-7177

epan/dissectors/packet-catapult-dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.6 does not restrict the number of channels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-09-09

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3671
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036760
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12750
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/17096
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2e37b271c473e1cbd01d62ebe1f3b011fc9fe638
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-52.html