The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 2.2.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-2.2.2 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2016-9376)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, the Profinet I/O dissector could loop excessively, triggered by network     traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in plugins/profinet/packet-pn-rtc-one.c by rejecting input     with too many I/O objects. (CVE-2016-9372)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the AllJoyn dissector could crash with a buffer over-read,     triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-alljoyn.c by     ensuring that a length variable properly tracked the state of a signature variable. (CVE-2016-9374)

  - 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.
    (CVE-2016-9373)

  - 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. (CVE-2016-9375)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

Wireshark 2.2.x < 2.2.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 95435

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.10 May 2, 2026, 1:15 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202605020115
Version 1.9 Mar 30, 2026, 9:17 PM Logic Changes (modernized plugin) Plugin Feed: 202603302117
Version 1.8 Jan 16, 2026, 10:12 PM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2016-9376") Plugin Feed: 202601162212