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CVE-2017-11409

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-834

Description

In Wireshark 2.0.0 to 2.0.13, the GPRS LLC dissector could go into a large loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gprs-llc.c by using a different integer data type.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.0.0 through 2.0.13

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99914
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038966
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13603
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57b83bbbd76f543eb8d108919f13b662910bff9a
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-37.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99914
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038966
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13603
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57b83bbbd76f543eb8d108919f13b662910bff9a
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-37.html

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