KLA11063 Denial of service vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark version 2.2.7. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A stack exhaustion vulnerability in the DAAP dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed DAAP data to cause a denial of service;
2. A stack exhaustion vulnerability in the MP4 dissector can be exploited remotely via a specially designed MP4 data to cause a denial of service.

Technical details

Vulnerability (1) is related to the dissect_daap_one_tag() function in epan/dissectors/packet-daap.c.

Vulnerability (1) is related to the dissect_mp4_box() function in epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c.

Original advisories

Wireshark Bug Database

Wireshark Bug Database

Related products

Wireshark

CVE list

CVE-2017-9617 warning

CVE-2017-9616 warning

Solution

Avoid processing MP4 data and DAAP data with vulnerable Wireshark version.

Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• Wireshark version 2.2.7