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CVE-2017-5597
Published: Jan 25, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.html
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https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/
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95798
vdb-entry
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DSA-3811
vendor-advisory
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1037694
vdb-entry
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https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345
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