VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7180

medium
Published 2016-09-09 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.2.0~rc1+g438c022-1
sid Fixed 2.2.0~rc1+g438c022-1
forky Fixed 2.2.0~rc1+g438c022-1
bullseye Fixed 2.2.0~rc1+g438c022-1
bookworm Fixed 2.2.0~rc1+g438c022-1
8.0 Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 2.2.0-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark2.0.0
wiresharkwireshark2.0.1
wiresharkwireshark2.0.2
wiresharkwireshark2.0.3
wiresharkwireshark2.0.4
wiresharkwireshark2.0.5

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.