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CVE-2016-9375

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% 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 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 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=13097
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=be6a10afc59f8182b9884d02f9857d547539fe8a
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.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=13097
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=be6a10afc59f8182b9884d02f9857d547539fe8a
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.html

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