High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 2.4.0, 2.2.0 to 2.2.8, and 2.0.0 to 2.0.14, the IrCOMM dissector has a buffer over-read and application crash. This was addressed in plugins/irda/packet-ircomm.c by adding length validation.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-13765
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.4.0, 2.2.0 to 2.2.8, and 2.0.0 to 2.0.14, the IrCOMM dissector has a buffer over-read and application crash. This was addressed in plugins/irda/packet-ircomm.c by adding length validation.
osv:CVE-2017-13765
Complete source record
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