| Name | CVE-2017-7747 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1634-1, ELA-75-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.6.20-0+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.2.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - wireshark <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-18.html
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=5cfd52d6629cf8a7ab67c6bacd3431a964f43584
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13559