CVE-2017-6473
High
CVE-2017-6473
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a K12 file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/k12.c by validating the relationships between lengths and offsets.
Exploit probability
2.7%
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-2017-6473
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In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a K12 file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/k12.c by validating the relationships between lengths and offsets.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96565
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13431
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7edc761a01cda8e1b37677f673985582330317d2
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-09.html