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CVE-2016-7179
Stack-based buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-catapult-dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.6…
Medium5.9EPSS 2.7%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-catapult-dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12752 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-54.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1036760 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3671 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3b97fbddc23c065727b0147aab52a27c4aadffe7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/17095 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .