CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9376
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the OpenFlow dissector could crash with memory exhaustion, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-openflow_v5.c by ensuring that certain length values were sufficiently large.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.0
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.1
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.2
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.3
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.4
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.5
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.6
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.7
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.0
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.1
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13071 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2a7af8d3928e18ef15778e63b9b6c78f8bd1bef code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13071 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2a7af8d3928e18ef15778e63b9b6c78f8bd1bef code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.html Vendor Advisory