Improper input validation in Wireshark - CVE-2017-15193

Vulnerability identifier: #VU9115

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-2017-15193

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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 MBIM dissector to crash.

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

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

• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-43.html

• Denial of service in Wireshark
• Arch Linux update for wireshark-cli
• Improper input validation in wireshark (Alpine package)
• Improper input validation in firefox-esr (Alpine package)
• Fedora 27 update for wireshark