A flaw was found in the way packet reassembly code of wireshark would parse a packet which could leak memory. An attacker could use this flaw to crash wireshark by sending a 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 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |