vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-11411): wireshark vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 18, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

In Wireshark through 2.0.13 and 2.2.x through 2.2.7, the openSAFETY dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c by adding length validation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-9350.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
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