Out-of-Bounds Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.0.0,2.0.13)[2.2.0,2.2.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318561
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9351  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.0.13, 2.2.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The DHCP dissector could read past the end of a buffer. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bootp.c by extracting the Vendor Class Identifier more carefully.

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