CVE-2017-6468
High
CVE-2017-6468
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a NetScaler file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by validating the relationship between pages and records.
Exploit probability
2.6%
Published
March 4, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
47 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-6468
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In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a NetScaler file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by validating the relationship between pages and records.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96569
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13430
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f3bc84b7e7e435c50b8b68f0fc526d0f5676cbf
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-08.html