Kaspersky ID:
KLA11034
Detect Date:
06/02/2017
Updated:
01/22/2024

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities possibly to cause a denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. An improper handling of dividing by zero in the L2CAP dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to handle a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;
  2. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the MSNIP, RGMP, IPv6 dissectors can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to handle a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;
  3. An unspecified vulnerability in the openSAFETY dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to handle a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;
  4. An infinite loop in the DICOM dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to handle a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;
  5. Infinite loops in the DNS, SoulSeek and Bazaar dissectors can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to handle a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;
  6. An out-of-bounds read in the DHCP and DOF dissectors can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to handle a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;
  7. A null pointer dereference in the ROS dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to handle a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;

Technical details

In case of vulnerability (3), denial of service can be a crash or a system memory exhaustion.

Denial of service, which might become a result of exploiting vulnerabilities (5), occurs because of consuming excessive CPU resources.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2017-9343
    warning
  • CVE-2017-9344
    warning
  • CVE-2017-9345
    critical
  • CVE-2017-9346
    critical
  • CVE-2017-9347
    warning
  • CVE-2017-9349
    critical
  • CVE-2017-9350
    critical
  • CVE-2017-9351
    warning
  • CVE-2017-9352
    critical
  • CVE-2017-9353
    warning
  • CVE-2017-9354
    warning

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