CVE-2016-7177 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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;a=commit;h=2e37b271c473e1cbd01d62ebe1f3b011fc9fe638 https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-52.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.9