CVE-2017-9616 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.7, overly deep mp4 chunks may cause stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the dissect_mp4_box function in epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c.

Published: 2017-06-14

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-18547	In Wireshark 2.2.7, overly deep mp4 chunks may cause stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the dissect_mp4_box function in epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00221.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99085
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038706
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13777
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9616
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9616

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00096}`	epss `{'score': 0.00221}`

Subscriptions

Wireshark Wireshark

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-14T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:11:02.330Z

Reserved: 2017-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9616

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-14T20:29:00.173

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

Link: CVE-2017-9616

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-06-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9616 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-674

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