CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
69.8%
Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.810700");
script_version("2024-07-22T05:05:40+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6014");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-22 05:05:40 +0000 (Mon, 22 Jul 2024)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-02-21 15:26:53 +0530 (Tue, 21 Feb 2017)");
script_name("Wireshark 'STANAG 4607' Capture File Denial of Service Vulnerability - Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to a crafted or
malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory
exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset
to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same
zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote
attackers to cause the application to enter an infinite loop and consume
excessive CPU resources, resulting in denial-of-service conditions.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark versions 2.2.4 and prior
on Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to Wireshark 2.2.5 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://git.net/ml/general/2017-02/msg20415.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/macosx/detected");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!wirversion = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
exit(0);
}
if(version_is_less_equal(version: wirversion, test_version:"2.2.4"))
{
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:wirversion, fixed_version:"2.2.5");
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
69.8%