CVE-2016-9375

MEDIUM

Wireshark <2.2.1, <2.0.7 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the DTN dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dtn.c by checking whether SDNV evaluation was successful.

References (6)

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369

[Issue Tracking] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13097

[Patch] https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=be6a10afc59f8182b9884d02f9857d547539fe8a

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9

EPSS 0.0148

EPSS Percentile 80.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-399 CWE-20

Status published

Affected Products (12)

wireshark/wireshark

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Nov 17, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026