vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-6469): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 4, 2017 | Nov 19, 2024 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 4, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an LDSS dissector crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by ensuring that memory is allocated for a certain data structure.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2017-6469
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-6469
- CWE-20
- DEBIAN-DSA-3811
- EUVD-EUVD-2017-15526
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13346
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4f753c127082d5e28abf482d6d175cbfee6661f7
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-15526
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6469
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-03.html
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