Cisco Sourcefire Snort 3.0 before build 233 mishandles Ether Type Validation. Since valid ether type and IP protocol numbers do not overlap, Snort++ stores all protocol decoders in a single array. That makes it possible to craft packets that have IP protocol numbers in the ether type field which will confuse the Snort++ decoder. For example, an eth:llc:snap:icmp6 packet will cause a crash because there is no ip6 header with which to calculate the icmp6 checksum. Affected decoders include gre, llc, trans_bridge, ciscometadata, linux_sll, and token_ring. The fix adds a check in the packet manager to validate the ether type before indexing the decoder array. An out of range ether type will raise 116:473.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2017-05-16T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:20.453Z

Reserved: 2017-03-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6657

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-16T17:29:00.403

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-6657

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