CVE-2017-7747

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the PacketBB dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c by restricting additions to the protocol tree.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-18.html

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

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5cfd52d6629cf8a7ab67c6bacd3431a964f43584

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13559

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97638

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3