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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9376: wireshark Multiple issues

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.7, the OpenFlow dissector could crash with memory exhaustion, triggered by network traffic or a capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-openflow_v5.c by ensuring that certain length values were sufficiently large.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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