CVE-2017-17085

Publication date 1 December 2017

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.10, the CIP Safety dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cipsafety.c by validating the packet length.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wireshark	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.6.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.6.3-1~ubuntu16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14250
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f5939debe96e3c3953c6020818f1fbb80eb83ce8
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-49.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17085