CVE-2017-5596
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the ASTERIX dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2017-01-25
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190, CWE-835
Affected products
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95795
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13344
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19746/
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=781f03580c81339513bb1238b202b72469a1240b
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-01.html
