CVE-2017-6469: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an LDSS dissector crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by ensuring that memory is allocated for a certain data structure.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: from 2.0.0, up to and including 2.0.10; from 2.2.0, up to and including 2.2.4

Published 2017-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.