CVE-2017-13765

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0, 2.2.0 to 2.2.8, and 2.0.0 to 2.0.14, the IrCOMM dissector has a buffer over-read and application crash. This was addressed in plugins/irda/packet-ircomm.c by adding length validation.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.0.0 through 2.0.14; from 2.2.0 through 2.2.8; 2.4.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100551
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039254
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13929
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=94666d4357096fc45e3bcad3d9414a14f0831bc8
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-41.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100551
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039254
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13929
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=94666d4357096fc45e3bcad3d9414a14f0831bc8
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-41.html

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