vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2017-6472 : RTMPT dissector infinite loop

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 3, 2017
Added
Oct 4, 2017
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an RTMPT dissector infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rtmpt.c by properly incrementing a certain sequence value.

Solutions

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