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CVE-2017-17083

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-754

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.10, the NetBIOS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-netbios.c by ensuring that write operations are bounded by the beginning of a buffer.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5 (+8)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102029
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14249
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79768d63d14fbce6bf7fb4d4a1c86be0c5205eb3
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-48.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102029
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14249
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79768d63d14fbce6bf7fb4d4a1c86be0c5205eb3
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-48.html

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