CVE-2016-9372
medium
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.9
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94368
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12851
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4127e3930ef663114567002001f44e01eba8a250
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-58.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9372.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9372
CWEs
CWE-20 CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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