VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-17083

high
Published 2017-12-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.4.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.4.3-1
debian debiansidfixed2.4.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.4.3-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark2.2.0
wiresharkwireshark2.2.1
wiresharkwireshark2.2.2
wiresharkwireshark2.2.3
wiresharkwireshark2.2.4
wiresharkwireshark2.2.5
wiresharkwireshark2.2.6
wiresharkwireshark2.2.7
wiresharkwireshark2.2.8
wiresharkwireshark2.2.9
wiresharkwireshark2.2.10
wiresharkwireshark2.4.0
wiresharkwireshark2.4.1
wiresharkwireshark2.4.2

References

CWEs

CWE-754

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.