CVE-2016-7180 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7180?

CVE-2016-7180 is a medium-severity use after free 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-ipmi-trace.c in the IPMI trace dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.6 does not properly consider whether a string is constant, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7180?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7180?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-7180 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7180, GHSA-pq6r-wvvh-jm62, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7180.