Input validation error in Wireshark and Debian Linux - CVE-2016-9375
Published: November 17, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40044
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9375
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
Affected software
Wireshark
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9375
Install update from vendor's website.
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=13097
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=be6a10afc59f8182b9884d02f9857d547539fe8a
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.html