[Secure-testing-team] Bug#870175: wireshark: CVE-2017-9766: Malformed DCERPC PNIO packet decode, exception handler invalid pointer reference

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: wireshark
Version: 2.2.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13811

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for wireshark.

CVE-2017-9766[0]:
| In Wireshark 2.2.7, PROFINET IO data with a high recursion depth allows
| remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) in the
| dissect_IODWriteReq function in plugins/profinet/packet-dcerpc-pn-io.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-2017-9766
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9766
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13811

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore