A flaw was found in X11 dissector of wireshark of which an attacker could make wireshark consume excessive CPU resources which could make system unresponsive by injecting specially crafted packet onto the wire or by convincing wireshark user to read malformed packet trace file.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | wireshark | 2017-04-04 12:00 | ALAS-2017-813 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |