Description
Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service.
Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:
- Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the AMQP and MQ dissectors can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet, which is injected onto the wire, or by convincing a user to read a specially designed packet trace file to cause a denial of service;
- An infinite loop in the DOCSIS 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;
- 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;
- An infinite loop in the WXML 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
For vulnerabilities (1) and (2), denial of service is a crash.
Vulnerabilities (1) are related to epan/dissectors/packet-mq.c and epan/dissectors/packet-amqp.c.
Denial of service, which might become a result of exploiting vulnerabilities (2) and (4), occurs because of consuming excessive CPU resources.
In case of vulnerability (3), denial of service can be a crash or a system memory exhaustion.
Vulnerabilities (3) is related plugins/docsis/packet-docsis.c.
Original advisories
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CVE list
- CVE-2017-11411 critical
- CVE-2017-11406 critical
- CVE-2017-11407 warning
- CVE-2017-11408 warning
- CVE-2017-11410 critical
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