Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9372
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-9372
Complete source record
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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.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:41.195226035Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4127e3930ef663114567002001f44e01eba8a250",
"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-58.html",
"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12851"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2016-11-17T05:59:00.163+00:00"
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