CVE-2017-15193

7.5 HIGH

Published: October 10, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.9, the MBIM dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mbim.c by changing the memory-allocation approach.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101240

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14056

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

https://code.wireshark.org/review/23537

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=afb9ff7982971aba6e42472de0db4c1bedfc641b

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101240