CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9373

Use After Free

Published: Nov 17, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
5.9 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.1 (including) 2.0.1 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.2 (including) 2.0.2 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.3 (including) 2.0.3 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.4 (including) 2.0.4 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.5 (including) 2.0.5 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.6 (including) 2.0.6 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.7 (including) 2.0.7 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.0 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.1 (including) 2.2.1 (including)
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu precise *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Wireshark Ubuntu upstream *
Wireshark Ubuntu xenial *
Wireshark Ubuntu yakkety *
Wireshark Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References