CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7700

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-04-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.0.0 <= 2.0.11) • wireshark wireshark (>= 2.2.0 <= 2.2.5) • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References