CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6014
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-17
- 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])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (<= 2.2.4)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 Third Party Advisory