vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-7747: wireshark -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the PacketBB dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c by restricting additions to the protocol tree.

Solution

debian-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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