PT-2017-17925

CVE-2017-7748

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Published

2017-04-12

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Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 2.0
7.8
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.11 Wireshark versions 2.2.0 through 2.2.5
Description The issue arises from the WSP dissector potentially entering an infinite loop. This can be triggered by either packet injection or a malformed capture file.
Recommendations For Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.11, update to a version where the length check has been added to epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c to prevent the infinite loop. For Wireshark versions 2.2.0 through 2.2.5, update to a version where the length check has been added to epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c to prevent the infinite loop.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2017-1470
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11513-1
SUSE-SU-2017:1174-1
SUSE-SU-2017:1442-1
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