[Secure-testing-team] Bug#870174: wireshark: CVE-2017-9617: DAAP dissector dissect_daap_one_tag recursion 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=13799

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for wireshark.

CVE-2017-9617[0]:
| In Wireshark 2.2.7, deeply nested DAAP data may cause stack exhaustion
| (uncontrolled recursion) in the dissect_daap_one_tag function in
| epan/dissectors/packet-daap.c in the DAAP dissector.

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-2017-9617
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9617
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13799

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore