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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7705: Vulnerability in Wireshark

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7705: Vulnerability in Wireshark

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/20/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the RPC over RDMA dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcrdma.c by correctly checking for going beyond the maximum offset.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-2-2-6-0-175-3-21-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-tshark-2-2-6-0-175-3-21-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-wireshark-common-2-2-6-0-175-3-21-0-4-0

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