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Wireshark : CVE-2017-9353 : IPv6 dissector crash

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Wireshark : CVE-2017-9353 : IPv6 dissector crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/02/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/04/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6, the IPv6 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ipv6.c by validating an IPv6 address.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_2_7

References

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