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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-25T21:00:00

Updated: 2017-11-03T18:57:01

Reserved: 2017-01-25T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-5597

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-25T21:59:00.183

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:49:26.840


Link: CVE-2017-5597

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