OpenSAFETY Dissector Crash and Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability

CVE-2017-11411 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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