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CVE-2017-17085

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• 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 CIP Safety dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cipsafety.c by validating the packet length.

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/102071
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14250
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5939debe96e3c3953c6020818f1fbb80eb83ce8
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43233/
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-49.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102071
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14250
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5939debe96e3c3953c6020818f1fbb80eb83ce8
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060

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