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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-9351): wireshark vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 2, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DHCP dissector could read past the end of a buffer. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bootp.c by extracting the Vendor Class Identifier more carefully.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark

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