CVE-2017-7746
N/A
Published: April 12, 2017 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:25 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxWireshark
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the SLSK dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-slsk.c by adding checks for the remaining length.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (5)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97635x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13576Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-19.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835
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