OpenSAFETY Dissector Crash and Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability

CVE-2017-9350 · HIGH Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the openSAFETY dissector could crash or exhaust system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c by checking for a negative length.

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