CVE-2017-9766 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WiresharkDebian WiresharkDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJun 21
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.7, PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) in the dissect_IODWriteReq function in plugins/profinet/packet-dcerpc-pn-io.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wireshark< wireshark 2.4.0-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 2.4.0-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

Patches

Patch: bugs.wireshark.org ↗Patch: bugs.wireshark.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-4v8g-w2m4-45p8: In Wireshark 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-9766: In Wireshark 2↗2017-06-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth can cause stack exhaustion↗2017-06-19
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Debian
CVE-2017-9766: wireshark - In Wireshark 2.2.7, PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth allows remote a...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9616 CVE-2017-9617 CVE-2017-9766 wireshark: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9766 wireshark: PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth can cause stack exhaustion↗2017-06-22
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