CVE-2016-9372 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service in Wireshark by sending crafted Profinet I/O traffic or providing a malicious capture file.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-9372?
CVE-2016-9372 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark Wireshark, published on 17 Nov 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9372?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wireshark Wireshark.
How do I fix CVE-2016-9372?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-9372 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9372 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Wireshark Wireshark
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9372, GHSA-j9pp-495j-qm96, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9372.