CVE-2017-17997

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
In Wireshark before 2.2.12, the MRDISC dissector misuses a NULL pointer and crashes. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mrdisc.c by validating an IPv4 address. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2017-9343.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-17997
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-12-30T07:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-03-01T18:19:57
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-476 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.2.11
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=80a695869c9aef2fb473d9361da068022be7cb50 Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/25063/ Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14299 Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-02.html Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17997
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17997
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:57:18 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 00:31:26 2017-12-30T07:29Z 2017-12-30T07:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 00:31:26 2019-03-01T18:19:57 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 00:31:26 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated