Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark. By exploiting these vulnerabilities malicious users can cause denial of service. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet.

Technical details

These vulnerabilities related to multiple dissectors:

1. epan/dissectors/packet-ipmi-trace.c in the IPMI trace dissector does not properly consider whether constant string
2. Stack-based buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-catapult-dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector
3. epan/dissectors/packet-umts_fp.c in the UMTS FP dissector does not properly handle memory allocation
4. epan/dissectors/packet-catapult-dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector does not restrict number of channels
5. epan/dissectors/packet-h225.c in the H.225 dissector calls snprintf with one of its input buffers as the output buffer
6. epan/dissectors/packet-qnet6.c in the QNX6 QNET dissector mishandles MAC address data

Wireshark 2 versions earlier than 2.0.6

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Wireshark security advisories

CVE-2016-7180
CVE-2016-7179
CVE-2016-7178
CVE-2016-7177
CVE-2016-7176
CVE-2016-7175