CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6471
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-04
- 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-20
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.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.0.0 <= 2.0.10)
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.2.0 <= 2.2.4)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html Vendor Advisory