High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a K12 file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/k12.c by validating the relationships between lengths and offsets.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-6473
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a K12 file parser crash, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/k12.c by validating the relationships between lengths and offsets.
osv:CVE-2017-6473
Complete source record
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