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CVE-2016-9373 json

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 c…

published 2016-11-17 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10183

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.2.2+g9c5aae3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9373

  • wireshark Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • wireshark Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.2.6+g32dac6a-2ubuntu0.16.04

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9373

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wireshark SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 2.2.6-44.3
  • wireshark SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.0.12-36.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1442-1SUSE-SU-2017:1174-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.2.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

  • wireshark-cli Arch Linux 2.2.2-1
  • wireshark-qt Arch Linux 2.2.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-78

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-9373 updated cvss 5.9

wireshark: DCERPC crash (wnpa-sec-2016-61)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.