vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2017-9350 : openSAFETY dissector memory exhaustion

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 2, 2017
Added
Oct 4, 2017
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the openSAFETY dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c by checking for a negative length.

Solutions

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