CVE-2016-9376
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.9 · CWE-399
5.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369Advisory
- 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%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2a7af8d3928e18ef15778e63b9b6c78f8bd1bef