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high 7.5

CVE-2017-17085 in the critical feed json

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.10, the CIP Safety dissector could crash.

published 2017-12-01 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-8251

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.7%
EPSS 16.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.10, the CIP Safety dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cipsafety.c by validating the packet length.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.4.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17085

  • wireshark Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1
  • wireshark Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.6.3-1~ubuntu16.04.1
  • wireshark Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.6.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17085

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wireshark SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.2.11-40.14.5
  • libsmi SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 0.4.5-2.7.2.1
  • portaudio SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 19-234.18.1
  • wireshark SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 2.2.11-48.15.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0054-1SUSE-SU-2017:3436-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.4.8-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11513-1

  • wireshark Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 2.4.3-r0
  • wireshark Alpine 3.6, Alpine 3.5 2.2.11-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-17085

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-17085 updated cvss 5.9

wireshark: CIP Safety dissector crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-43233)

Exploit prediction

16.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-43233 Wireshark 2.4.0 < 2.4.2 / 2.2.0 < 2.2.10 - CIP Safety Dissector Crash dos, 2017-12-07

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.