CVE-2017-7701

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa31f69b407436d0946f84baa0acdcc50962bf7a

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13557

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97632

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-12

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

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