vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-6469: Improper Input Validation
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 4, 2017 | Aug 30, 2017 | Jun 18, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 4, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Jun 18, 2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an LDSS dissector crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by ensuring that memory is allocated for a certain data structure.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
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