Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2016-7175 Details

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-qnet6.c in the QNX6 QNET dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.6 mishandles MAC address data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.9 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11850 CVEIssue Tracking
https://code.wireshark.org/review/16965 CVEIssue TrackingPatch
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1396f6ad555178f6b81cc1a65f9cb37b2d99aebf CVE
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-50.html CVEVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036760 CVEThird Party Advisory

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wireshark wireshark
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-7175
NVD Published Date:
Sep 9, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-7175 Details - Not Deferred