CVE-2017-5597
N/A
Published: January 25, 2017 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:20 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorWireshark
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190
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