CVE-2017-17997

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-12-30

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14299
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/25063/
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=80a695869c9aef2fb473d9361da068022be7cb50
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-02.html