UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9345

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9345

    Published: 2 Jun 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9345

    Summary:

    Details: In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DNS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by trying to detect self-referencing pointers.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9345, https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-26.html, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13633, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1206, https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=e280c9b637327a65d132bfe72d917b87e6844eb5, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9345

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wireshark

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~ubuntu14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1

    Affected versions

    1.10.2-1
    1.10.3-1
    1.10.5-1ubuntu1
    1.10.5-2
    1.10.6-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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