Denial of service in Wireshark - CVE-2017-9353

Vulnerability identifier: #VU6915

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-2017-9353

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

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

The weakness exists in the IPv6 dissector due to improper validation of an IPv6 address. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet epan/dissectors/packet-ipv6.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.

Wireshark
Arch Linux
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark

Update to version 2.2.7 or later.

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

• Exploit #1227 - Wireshark 2.2.6 - IPv6 Dissector Denial of Service (March 18, 2020)

• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-33.html

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark
• Arch Linux update for wireshark-cli
• Denial of service in wireshark (Alpine package)
• Fedora 26 update for wireshark