CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5596

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-01-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190, CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the ASTERIX dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark 2.0.0 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.1 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.2 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.3 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.4 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.5 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.6 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.7 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.8 • wireshark wireshark 2.0.9 • wireshark wireshark 2.2.0 • wireshark wireshark 2.2.1 • wireshark wireshark 2.2.2 • wireshark wireshark 2.2.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References