Denial of service in Wireshark

Published: 2017-06-20 | Updated: 2022-03-24

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2017-9616 CVE-2017-9617
CWE-ID	CWE-400
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	Wireshark Server applications / IDS/IPS systems, Firewalls and proxy servers
Vendor	Wireshark.org

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Denial of service

EUVDB-ID: #VU7128

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.4 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9616

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to memory exhaustion when processing malicious media files. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted MP4 data, trigger an error in the dissect_mp4_box() function in 'epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c', consume excessive memory and cause the system to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Wireshark: 2.2.7

CPE2.3

cpe:2.3:a:wireshark_org:wireshark:2.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13777

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Denial of service

EUVDB-ID: #VU7130