High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-13764

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0, the Modbus dissector could crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mbtcp.c by adding length validation.

Affected products

Wireshark/Wireshark
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-40.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100545nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1039254nvd
code.wireshark.org/review/gitwebnvd

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