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Wireshark : CVE-2017-11411 : openSAFETY dissector memory exhaustion

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Wireshark : CVE-2017-11411 : openSAFETY dissector memory exhaustion

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/04/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_0_14
  • wireshark-upgrade-2_2_8

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