CVE-2017-6474

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a NetScaler file parser infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by validating record sizes.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-03-04

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96566
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13429
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a998c9195f183d85f5b0bbeebba21a2d4d303d47
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-07.html