CVE-2016-9373 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-9373?

CVE-2016-9373 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, 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 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.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9373?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9373?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-9373 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9373 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9373, GHSA-28c2-hmwc-85x2, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9373.