CVE-2017-6471

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a WSP infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3