VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-13767

high
Published 2017-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0, 2.2.0 to 2.2.8, and 2.0.0 to 2.0.14, the MSDP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-msdp.c by adding length validation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.4.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.4.1-1
debian debiansidfixed2.4.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.4.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark2.0.0
wiresharkwireshark2.0.1
wiresharkwireshark2.0.2
wiresharkwireshark2.0.3
wiresharkwireshark2.0.4
wiresharkwireshark2.0.5
wiresharkwireshark2.0.6
wiresharkwireshark2.0.7
wiresharkwireshark2.0.8
wiresharkwireshark2.0.9
wiresharkwireshark2.0.10
wiresharkwireshark2.0.11
wiresharkwireshark2.0.12
wiresharkwireshark2.0.13
wiresharkwireshark2.2.0
wiresharkwireshark2.2.1
wiresharkwireshark2.2.2
wiresharkwireshark2.2.3
wiresharkwireshark2.2.4
wiresharkwireshark2.2.5
wiresharkwireshark2.2.6
wiresharkwireshark2.2.7
wiresharkwireshark2.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20 CWE-835

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.