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CVE-2017-17083

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.10, the NetBIOS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-netbios.c by ensuring that write operations are bounded by the beginning of a buffer.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102029

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-48.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79768d63d14fbce6bf7fb4d4a1c86be0c5205eb3

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14249

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-01

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00918