CVE-2016-9376

medium

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.

References

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

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

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-60.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2a7af8d3928e18ef15778e63b9b6c78f8bd1bef

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13071

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-11-17

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01481