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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-15191)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 10, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A length check flaw has been discovered in wireshark before 2.4.2 in the BT ATT dissector when 7bit strings were decoded leading to application crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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