CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17935
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The File_read_line function in epan/wslua/wslua_file.c in Wireshark through 2.2.11 does not properly strip '\n' characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and application crash) via a crafted packet that triggers the attempted processing of an empty line.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (<= 2.2.11)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102311 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/24997/ Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=137ab7d5681486c6d6cc8faac4300b7cd4ec0cf1 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102311 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/24997/ Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=137ab7d5681486c6d6cc8faac4300b7cd4ec0cf1 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory