CVE-2016-9374 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause Wireshark to crash via a buffer over-read in the AllJoyn dissector by sending malicious network traffic or providing a crafted 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-2016-9374?
CVE-2016-9374 is a medium-severity denial of service 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 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9374?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.
How do I fix CVE-2016-9374?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2016-9374 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9374 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9374, GHSA-6vw8-w3q3-4cmf, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9374.