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CVE-2016-9372 (GCVE-0-2016-9372)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-17 05:48 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:50
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Summary
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, the Profinet I/O dissector could loop excessively, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in plugins/profinet/packet-pn-rtc-one.c by rejecting input with too many I/O objects.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-11-16 00:00
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