vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-9373): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Nov 17, 2016 | Nov 19, 2024 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 17, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
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.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2016-9373
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9373
- CWE-416
- DEBIAN-DSA-3719
- EUVD-EUVD-2016-10183
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13072
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=cc8e37f0f53c4401bb1644a34eddea345940a8df
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-10183
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9373
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-61.html
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