[Secure-testing-team] Bug#870173: wireshark: CVE-2017-9616: Over deep mp4 chunks may cause stack Exhausted

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: wireshark
Version: 2.2.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13777

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for wireshark.

CVE-2017-9616[0]:
| In Wireshark 2.2.7, overly deep mp4 chunks may cause stack exhaustion
| (uncontrolled recursion) in the dissect_mp4_box function in
| epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9616
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9616
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13777

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore