vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2017-7747 : PacketBB dissector crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Apr 25, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the PacketBB dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c by restricting additions to the protocol tree.

Solutions

wireshark-upgrade-2_0_12wireshark-upgrade-2_2_6
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