CVE-2017-5597
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.0 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.1 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.2 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.3 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.4 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.5 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.6 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.7 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.8 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.0.9 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.2.0 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.2.1 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.2.2 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.2.3 | |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95798
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5597.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5597
CWEs
CWE-190
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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