CVE-2017-17997

Description

In Wireshark before 2.2.12, the MRDISC dissector misuses a NULL pointer and crashes. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mrdisc.c by validating an IPv4 address. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2017-9343.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-02.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=80a695869c9aef2fb473d9361da068022be7cb50

https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/25063/

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14299

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3