CVE-2016-9376

MEDIUM

Wireshark <2.2.1, <2.0.7 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

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.

References (6)

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
Status published

Affected Products (12)

wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
wireshark/wireshark
debian/debian_linux
n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Nov 17, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026