CVE-2017-15193

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.9, the MBIM dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mbim.c by changing the memory-allocation approach.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-43.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=afb9ff7982971aba6e42472de0db4c1bedfc641b

https://code.wireshark.org/review/23537

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14056

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101240

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-10-10

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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