High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 4, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-6469
CVE-2017-6469
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an LDSS dissector crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by ensuring that memory is allocated for a certain data structure.
Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
5- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96577nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-03.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- code.wireshark.org/review/gitwebnvd
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