PT-2017-19441 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2017-09-01 · Updated 2017-09-01

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions prior to 2.0.15

Description A security issue exists where a malformed packet trace could cause Wireshark to crash or go into an infinite loop. Several other bugs are also fixed in the updated version.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.15, update to version 2.0.15 to resolve the issue.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2017-0324

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0324 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0324.html · Security Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-41.html · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21643 · Note
• https://wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.0.15.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-38.html · Note
• https://wireshark.org/news/20170829.html · Note