Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.4.3-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.28% (69th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144440
- published 1 Dec 2017
- disclosed 1 Dec 2017
Introduced: 1 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17083 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.4.3-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark
package and not the wireshark
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.17
relevant fixed versions and status.
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.10, the NetBIOS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-netbios.c by ensuring that write operations are bounded by the beginning of a buffer.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17083
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17083
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14249
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=79768d63d14fbce6bf7fb4d4a1c86be0c5205eb3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102029
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-17083
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-48.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79768d63d14fbce6bf7fb4d4a1c86be0c5205eb3