CVE-2017-17083

7.5 HIGH

Published: December 01, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

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.

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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/102029

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14249

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79768d63d14fbce6bf7fb4d4a1c86be0c5205eb3

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-48.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102029