vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-6014): wireshark vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
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