CVE-2017-9346 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause Wireshark to enter an infinite loop via a malicious SoulSeek packet, leading to application denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2017-9346?

CVE-2017-9346 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark Wireshark, 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 SoulSeek dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-slsk.c by making loop bounds more explicit.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9346?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9346?

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-2017-9346 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9346 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-9346, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9346, GHSA-3c69-m56m-795w, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9346.

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