VDB
GHSA-3g9v-2x9v-4j4g
GHSA-3g9v-2x9v-4j4g
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
In Wireshark through 2.0.13 and 2.2.x through 2.2.7, the openSAFETY dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c by adding length validation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-9350.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
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The same record, from the CLI:
vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-3g9v-2x9v-4j4g
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-3g9v-2x9v-4j4g
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References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13755 url
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a83a324acdfc07a0ca8b65e6ebaba3374ab19c76 url
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-28.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11411 advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=a83a324acdfc07a0ca8b65e6ebaba3374ab19c76 url