Improper input validation in Wireshark - CVE-2017-15192

 

Improper input validation in Wireshark - CVE-2017-15192

Published: November 3, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9114
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-2017-15192
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet onto the wire or convince the victim into reading a malformed packet trace file and cause the Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector to crash.

Affected software

Wireshark
Arch Linux
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
wireshark

How to mitigate CVE-2017-15192

Update to version 2.4.2, 2.2.10 or later.

wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 2.0.16-r0
wireshark - update to 2.4.2-1.fc27

External References

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