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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-9347 in the critical feed json

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6, the ROS dissector could crash with a NULL pointer dereference.

published 2017-06-02 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18282

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.8%
EPSS 13.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6, the ROS dissector could crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/asn1/ros/packet-ros-template.c by validating an OID.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.2.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9347

  • 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-2017-9347

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 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +2 more 2.2.7-47.1
  • wireshark SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.0.13-39.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1663-1SUSE-SU-2017:1664-1

  • 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 +17 more 2.2.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-9347

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

  • wireshark-cli Arch Linux 2.2.7-1

arch linux advisories AVG-287

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-2017-9347 updated cvss 5.9

wireshark: ROS dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2017-31)

  • 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-42124)

Exploit prediction

13.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42124 Wireshark 2.2.0 < 2.2.12 - ROS Dissector Denial of Service dos, 2017-06-05

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

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.