CVE-2016-9375 Information

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7 the DTN dissector could go into an infinite loop triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dtn.c by checking whether SDNV evaluation was successful.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3719 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94369 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037313 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13097 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=be6a10afc59f8182b9884d02f9857d547539fe8a https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-62.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.9