CVE-2016-9374: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the AllJoyn dissector could crash with a buffer over-read, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-alljoyn.c by ensuring that a length variable properly tracked the state of a signature variable.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2016-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.