Input validation error in Wireshark and Debian Linux - CVE-2016-9374

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can create a buffer over-read, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-alljoyn.c by ensuring that a length variable properly tracked the state of a signature variable, pass it to the affected application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2016-9374

External References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12953
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=a5770b6559b6e6765c4ef800e85ae42781ea4900
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-59.html

Related Security Bulletins

• Input validation error in Wireshark
• Input validation error in wireshark (Alpine package)
• Arch Linux update for wireshark-cli
• Arch Linux update for wireshark-qt
• Arch Linux update for wireshark-gtk