VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-7747

high
Published 2017-04-12 · 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 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the PacketBB dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c by restricting additions to the protocol tree.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.6+g32dac6a-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.6+g32dac6a-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.6+g32dac6a-1
debian debiansidfixed2.2.6+g32dac6a-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.6+g32dac6a-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark2.0.0
wiresharkwireshark2.0.1
wiresharkwireshark2.0.2
wiresharkwireshark2.0.3
wiresharkwireshark2.0.4
wiresharkwireshark2.0.5
wiresharkwireshark2.0.6
wiresharkwireshark2.0.7
wiresharkwireshark2.0.8
wiresharkwireshark2.0.9
wiresharkwireshark2.0.10
wiresharkwireshark2.0.11
wiresharkwireshark2.2.0
wiresharkwireshark2.2.1
wiresharkwireshark2.2.2
wiresharkwireshark2.2.3
wiresharkwireshark2.2.4
wiresharkwireshark2.2.5

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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