Input validation error in Wireshark and Debian Linux - CVE-2016-9376
Published: November 17, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40043
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9376
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Wireshark.org
Debian
Debian
Affected software:
Wireshark
Debian Linux
Wireshark
Debian Linux
Detailed vulnerability description
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 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, pass it to the affected application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9376
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- 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=13071
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f2a7af8d3928e18ef15778e63b9b6c78f8bd1bef
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.html