CVE-2016-9376

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-11-17 05:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-28 01:29:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 2.0.0

2.0.0

Wireshark 2.0.1

2.0.1

Wireshark 2.0.2

2.0.2

Wireshark 2.0.3

2.0.3

Wireshark 2.0.4

2.0.4

Wireshark 2.0.5

2.0.5

Wireshark 2.0.6

2.0.6

Wireshark 2.0.7

2.0.7

Wireshark 2.2.0

2.2.0

Wireshark 2.2.1

2.2.1

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

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