CVE-2017-9344 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-9344?

CVE-2017-9344 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Jun 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could divide by zero. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btl2cap.c by validating an interval value.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9344?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9344?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-9344 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9344 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-9344, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9344, GHSA-fp6q-4pvx-cxr2, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9344.