CVE-2016-9376

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-399

Description

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.

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=13071
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2a7af8d3928e18ef15778e63b9b6c78f8bd1bef
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.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=13071
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2a7af8d3928e18ef15778e63b9b6c78f8bd1bef
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.html

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