CVE-2016-7178 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7178?

CVE-2016-7178 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Sep 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7178?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7178?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-7178 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7178 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7178, GHSA-cv7g-xg9q-v66m, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7178.