CVE-2016-9373

MEDIUM

Wireshark 2.0.0-2.2.1 - Use After Free

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the DCERPC dissector could crash with a use-after-free, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-nt.c and epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-spoolss.c by using the wmem file scope for private strings.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-61.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0122
EPSS Percentile 79.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (11)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
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
... and 1 more
Published Nov 17, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026