Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Wireshark DHCP Dissector

Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Wireshark DHCP Dissector

CVE-2017-9351 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DHCP dissector could read past the end of a buffer. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bootp.c by extracting the Vendor Class Identifier more carefully.

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