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.
References
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http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 | |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95798 | |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694 | |
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/ | Patch Vendor Advisory |
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f | |
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.html | Vendor Advisory |
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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
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-01-25T21:59:00.183
Modified: 2023-11-07T02:49:26.840
Link: CVE-2017-5597
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE