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CVE-2017-7747

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the PacketBB dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-packetbb.c by restricting additions to the protocol tree.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+12)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97638
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13559
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5cfd52d6629cf8a7ab67c6bacd3431a964f43584
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-18.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97638
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13559
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5cfd52d6629cf8a7ab67c6bacd3431a964f43584
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-18.html

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