CVE-2017-6469

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an LDSS dissector crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by ensuring that memory is allocated for a certain data structure.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-03.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f753c127082d5e28abf482d6d175cbfee6661f7

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13346

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96577

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-04

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High