CVE-2017-6473

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6473
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6473.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6473
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-04T03:59:00.397Z
Modified
2026-03-14T14:25:58.187757Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a K12 file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/k12.c by validating the relationships between lengths and offsets.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Events
Introduced
9a73b827b22c7ce9132e939b9f07ec4425fc2aa6
Last affected
0ad795bc8c4e98c9cd49b5609df19ccce2640666
Introduced
5368c50be46d4a44986d12bdfc0a35b42c0f34fc
Last affected
cc3dc1b648d341a489fb95faef3795d8cb2b6192
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.10"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.2.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.4"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.2.1rc0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.0.10
v2.0.10rc0
v2.0.1rc0
v2.0.2
v2.0.2rc0
v2.0.3
v2.0.3rc0
v2.0.4
v2.0.4rc0
v2.0.5
v2.0.5rc0
v2.0.6
v2.0.6rc0
v2.0.7
v2.0.7rc0
v2.0.8
v2.0.8rc0
v2.0.9
v2.0.9rc0
v2.2.0
v2.2.1
v2.2.1rc0
v2.2.2
v2.2.2rc0
v2.2.3
v2.2.3rc0
v2.2.4
v2.2.4rc0
wireshark-2.*
wireshark-2.0.0
wireshark-2.0.1
wireshark-2.0.10
wireshark-2.0.2
wireshark-2.0.3
wireshark-2.0.4
wireshark-2.0.5
wireshark-2.0.6
wireshark-2.0.7
wireshark-2.0.8
wireshark-2.0.9
wireshark-2.2.0
wireshark-2.2.1
wireshark-2.2.2
wireshark-2.2.3
wireshark-2.2.4

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6473.json"