CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7704
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-12
- 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 2.2.0 to 2.2.5, the DOF dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dof.c by using a different integer data type and adjusting a return value.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.0
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.1
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.2
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.3
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.4
• wireshark wireshark 2.2.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97634 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13453 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6032b0fe5fc1176ab77e03e20765f95fbd21b19e code.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=da53a90b6895e47e03c5de05edf84bd99d535fd8 code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-17.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97634 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13453 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6032b0fe5fc1176ab77e03e20765f95fbd21b19e code.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=da53a90b6895e47e03c5de05edf84bd99d535fd8 code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-17.html Vendor Advisory