vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-5597): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 25, 2017 | Nov 19, 2024 | Aug 19, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 25, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025
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.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2017-5597
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-5597
- CWE-190
- DEBIAN-DSA-3811
- DISA_SEVERITY-Category I
- IAVM-2017-B-0012
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5597
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.html
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