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CVE-2017-9353

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9353 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 2.2.0 through 2.2.6, where a malformed IPv6 packet could cause the application to crash due to insufficient validation in the IPv6 dissector. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to high availability impact without requiring user interaction or privileges. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a public proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.2.0, <= 2.2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
14.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-42123 · Jun 5, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1401 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-9353Moderate

wireshark: IPv6 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2017-33)

Jun 1, 2017

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
exploit-db.com / exploits/42123
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2017-33.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/98805
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038612
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry