CVE-2017-9766
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.7, PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) in the dissect_IODWriteReq function in plugins/profinet/packet-dcerpc-pn-io.c.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.4.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.4.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.4.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.4.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.4.0-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.2.7 | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99187
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13811
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d6e888400ba64de3147d1111a4c23edf389b0000
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9766.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9766
CWEs
CWE-674
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.