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Wireshark 'Modbus' Dissector DoS Vulnerability - Mac OS X

🗓️ 05 Sep 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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Wireshark Modbus Dissector DoS Vulnerability on Mac OS

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.811800");
  script_version("2025-09-17T05:39:26+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-13764");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-17 05:39:26 +0000 (Wed, 17 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-09-03 01:29:00 +0000 (Sun, 03 Sep 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-09-05 16:13:23 +0530 (Tue, 05 Sep 2017)");
  script_name("Wireshark 'Modbus' Dissector DoS Vulnerability - Mac OS X");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to a NULL pointer
  dereference error in 'epan/dissectors/packet-mbtcp.c' script.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow
  attackers to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto
  the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 2.4.0 on Mac OS X.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.4.1 or
  later.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-40.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100545");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/macosx/detected");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];

if(vers == "2.4.0") {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.4.1", install_path:path);
  security_message(port:0, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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17 Sep 2025 00:00Current
7.5High risk
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