CVE-2017-7748

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the WSP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by adding a length check.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-21.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f55cbcde2c8f74b652add4450b0592082eb6acff

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13581

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97628

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-12

Updated: 2023-11-07

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