Denial of service vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark version 2.2.7. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A stack exhaustion vulnerability in the DAAP dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed DAAP data to cause a denial of service;
2. A stack exhaustion vulnerability in the MP4 dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed MP4 data to cause a denial of service.

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Technical details

Vulnerability (1) is related to the dissect_daap_one_tag() function in epan/dissectors/packet-daap.c.

Vulnerability (1) is related to the dissect_mp4_box() function in epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c.

Original advisories

• Wireshark Bug Database

• Wireshark Bug Database

Related products

• Wireshark

CVE list

• CVE-2017-9617
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• CVE-2017-9616
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