CVE-2017-5597

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.

Published: Jan 25, 2017
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2017-5597
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-190

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.0	2.0.0.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.4	2.0.4.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.2.0	2.2.0.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.9	2.0.9.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.2.2	2.2.2.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.1	2.0.1.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.2.1	2.2.1.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.7	2.0.7.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.2	2.0.2.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.8	2.0.8.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.3	2.0.3.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.6	2.0.6.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.2.3	2.2.3.x
wireshark / wireshark	2.0.5	2.0.5.x

Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2017-5597