CVE-2017-6469

NameCVE-2017-6469
DescriptionIn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-858-1, DSA-3811-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wireshark (PTS)bullseye3.4.10-0+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)3.4.16-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)4.0.11-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie4.4.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wiresharksourcewheezy1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u7DLA-858-1
wiresharksourcejessie1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11DSA-3811-1
wiresharksource(unstable)2.2.5+g440fd4d-2

Notes

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-03.html
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4f753c127082d5e28abf482d6d175cbfee6661f7
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13346

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