CVE-2017-11409 — Excessive Iteration in Wireshark

CWE-834 — Excessive Iteration6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WiresharkDebian WiresharkDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJul 18
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Wireshark 2.0.0 to 2.0.13, the GPRS LLC dissector could go into a large loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gprs-llc.c by using a different integer data type.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wireshark< wireshark 2.2.0~rc1+g438c022-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 2.2.0~rc1+g438c022-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark2.0.0 — 2.0.13

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

Patches

Patch: bugs.wireshark.org ↗Patch: bugs.wireshark.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wj72-w3g7-f3jq: In Wireshark 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-11409: In Wireshark 2↗2017-07-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: GPRS LLC dissector large loop. (wnpa-sec-2017-37)↗2017-07-18
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Debian
CVE-2017-11409: wireshark - In Wireshark 2.0.0 to 2.0.13, the GPRS LLC dissector could go into a large loop....↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11409 wireshark: GPRS LLC dissector large loop. (wnpa-sec-2017-37)↗2017-07-19
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