Detections
Analytics

CVE-2017-6473

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a K12 file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/k12.c by validating the relationships between lengths and offsets.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96565

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

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-09.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7edc761a01cda8e1b37677f673985582330317d2

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13431

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-04

Updated: 2025-04-20

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

EPSS

EPSS: 0.007