Null pointer dereference in Wireshark - CVE-2017-9347

 

Null pointer dereference in Wireshark - CVE-2017-9347

Published: June 6, 2017 / Updated: September 14, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6909
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9347
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to NULL pointer dereference in the ROS dissector when validating an OID. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet epan/dissectors/asn1/ros/packet-ros-template.c onto the wire or persuade the target user to read a malformed packet trace file and cause the application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Affected software

Wireshark
Arch Linux
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9347

Update to version 2.2.7 or later.

wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 2.0.13-r0
wireshark - update to 2.2.7-1.fc26

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

External References

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