ALPINE-CVE-2017-6473

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-6473
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-6473.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-6473
Upstream
Published
2017-03-04T03:59:00.397Z
Modified
2026-07-08T04:31:13.107928635Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a K12 file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/k12.c by validating the relationships between lengths and offsets.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.5 / wireshark

Package

Name
wireshark
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/wireshark?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.2.5-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-6473.json"