CVE-2017-6471 | BDVDB-2026-82299 Detail
Description#
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a WSP infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.