CVE-2017-13764 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In Wireshark 2.4.0, the Modbus dissector could crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mbtcp.c by adding length validation.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00404.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Wireshark	Wireshark

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-5279	In Wireshark 2.4.0, the Modbus dissector could crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mbtcp.c by adding length validation.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100545
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039254
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13925
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b87ffbd12bddf64582c0a6e082b462744474de94
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13764
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13764
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-40.html

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-30T09:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:20.265Z

Reserved: 2017-08-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-13764

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-30T09:29:00.417

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-13764

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-13764 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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