vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-9350: Improper Input Validation

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 2, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the openSAFETY dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c by checking for a negative length.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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