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CVE-2016-9372

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, the Profinet I/O dissector could loop excessively, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in plugins/profinet/packet-pn-rtc-one.c by rejecting input with too many I/O objects.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.2.0, 2.2.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94368
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12851
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4127e3930ef663114567002001f44e01eba8a250
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-58.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94368
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12851
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4127e3930ef663114567002001f44e01eba8a250
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-58.html

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