Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component in Wireshark and Debian Linux - CVE-2017-7703
Published: April 13, 2017 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33535
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7703
CWE-ID: CWE-74
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the IMAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-imap.c by calculating a line's end correctly.
Affected software
Wireshark
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
How to mitigate CVE-2017-7703
Install update from vendor's website.
wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 2.0.12-r0
wireshark - update to 2.2.6-1.fc25
wireshark - update to 2.2.6-1.fc25
External References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97636
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13466
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=671e32820ab29d41d712cc8a472eab9b672684d9
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-12.html