SB2017062007 - Denial of service in Wireshark
Published: June 20, 2017 Updated: March 24, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017062007
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9616)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to memory exhaustion when processing malicious media files. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted MP4 data, trigger an error in the dissect_mp4_box() function in 'epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c', consume excessive memory and cause the system to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
2) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9617)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to memory exhaustion when processing malicious files. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted DAAP data, trigger an error in the dissect_daap_one_tag() function in 'epan/dissectors/packet-daap.c', consume excessive memory and cause the system to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.