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CVE-2017-13766

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% 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-787

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.8, the Profinet I/O dissector could crash with an out-of-bounds write. This was addressed in plugins/profinet/packet-dcerpc-pn-io.c by adding string validation.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+17)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100542
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039254
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13847
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2096bc1e5078732543e0a3ee115a2ce520a72bbc
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af7b093ca528516c14247acb545046199d30843e
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-39.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100542
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039254
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13847
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2096bc1e5078732543e0a3ee115a2ce520a72bbc
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af7b093ca528516c14247acb545046199d30843e

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