CVE-2016-7178

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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

Timeline

Published: Sep 9, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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