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CVE-2017-9353

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6, the IPv6 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ipv6.c by validating an IPv6 address.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.2.0 through 2.2.6

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98805
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038612
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1303
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13675
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=40b2d475c2ad550c1a0f536d5eb30f2a7404c4f0
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42123/
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-33.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98805
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038612
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1303
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13675
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=40b2d475c2ad550c1a0f536d5eb30f2a7404c4f0

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