Infinite Loop Vulnerability in Wireshark DTN Dissector

Infinite Loop Vulnerability in Wireshark DTN Dissector

CVE-2016-9375 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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