CVE-2017-17085

HIGH

Wireshark 2.4.0-2.4.2 and 2.2.0-2.2.10 - Denial of Service in CIP Safety Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2017-17085. PoCs published by Wireshark.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The provided text describes a DoS vulnerability in Wireshark's CIP Safety dissector, which can be triggered by a malformed packet. The proof of concept is referenced as a separate downloadable file.

Description

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by Wireshark · textdosmultiple
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43233

The provided text describes a DoS vulnerability in Wireshark's CIP Safety dissector, which can be triggered by a malformed packet. The proof of concept is referenced as a separate downloadable file.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2, 2.2.0 to 2.2.10
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Ability to inject malformed packets or convince a user to open a malformed packet trace file
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4060
Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43233/
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-49.html
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14250
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00029.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102071

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.1679
EPSS Percentile 96.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-754
Status published
Products (16)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.0
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.1
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.2
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.3
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.4
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.5
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.6
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.7
... and 6 more
Published Dec 01, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026