vulnerability
Wireshark : CVE-2016-9376 : OpenFlow crash
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Nov 17, 2016 | Oct 4, 2017 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 17, 2016
Added
Oct 4, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the OpenFlow dissector could crash with memory exhaustion, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-openflow_v5.c by ensuring that certain length values were sufficiently large.
Solutions
wireshark-upgrade-2_0_8wireshark-upgrade-2_2_2
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