CVE-2017-5597 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Wireshark

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or WraparoundCWE-835 — Infinite Loop7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WiresharkDebian Wireshark
Timeline
PublishedJan 25
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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.

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 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark14 versions+13

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-q7cj-m22p-5m4p: In Wireshark 2↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-5597: In Wireshark 2↗2017-01-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: DHCPv6 large loop (wnpa-sec-2017-02)↗2017-01-23
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Debian
CVE-2017-5597: wireshark - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go in...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5596 CVE-2017-5597 wireshark: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-01-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5597 wireshark: DHCPv6 large loop (wnpa-sec-2017-02)↗2017-01-24
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