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CVE-2017-11411

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% 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-20

Description

In Wireshark through 2.0.13 and 2.2.x through 2.2.7, the openSAFETY dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c by adding length validation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-9350.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+16)

References

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13755
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a83a324acdfc07a0ca8b65e6ebaba3374ab19c76
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-28.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13755
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a83a324acdfc07a0ca8b65e6ebaba3374ab19c76
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-28.html

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