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CVE-2017-6471

high

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-04

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.007