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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-9353)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 2, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue has been found in the IPv6 dissector of Wireshark < 2.2.7, where a NULL pointer dereference can be triggered by injecting a malicious packet into the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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