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Wireshark : CVE-2017-13764 : Modbus dissector crash

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Aug 30, 2017

Added

Oct 4, 2017

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0, the Modbus dissector could crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mbtcp.c by adding length validation.

Solution

wireshark-upgrade-2_4_1

References

CVE-2017-13764
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-13764
CWE-476
EUVD-EUVD-2017-5279
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-5279
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-40.html

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