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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-17997: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-17997: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/20/2018
Modified
10/01/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark

References

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