CVE-2017-6469

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96577Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13346Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f753c127082d5e28abf482d6d175cbfee6661f7
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-03.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96577Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13346Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f753c127082d5e28abf482d6d175cbfee6661f7
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-03.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 4, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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