CVE-2016-9373

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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-416

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the DCERPC dissector could crash with a use-after-free, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-nt.c and epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-spoolss.c by using the wmem file scope for private strings.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+4)

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=13072
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cc8e37f0f53c4401bb1644a34eddea345940a8df
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-61.html
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=13072
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cc8e37f0f53c4401bb1644a34eddea345940a8df
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-61.html

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