CVE-2016-9375

5.9 MEDIUM

Published: November 17, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13097

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=be6a10afc59f8182b9884d02f9857d547539fe8a

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719