CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17997
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-30
- 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-476
Description
In Wireshark before 2.2.12, the MRDISC dissector misuses a NULL pointer and crashes. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mrdisc.c by validating an IPv4 address. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2017-9343.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (<= 2.2.11)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14299 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/25063/ Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=80a695869c9aef2fb473d9361da068022be7cb50 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-02.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14299 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/25063/ Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=80a695869c9aef2fb473d9361da068022be7cb50 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-02.html Vendor Advisory