CVE-2017-7701

published 2017-04-12

CVE-2017-7701: In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file…

Priority P3 37 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.

Affected

23 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wireshark	< wireshark 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1 (bookworm)	wireshark 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1 (bookworm)
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1	2.2.6+g32dac6a-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1	2.2.6+g32dac6a-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1	2.2.6+g32dac6a-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1	2.2.6+g32dac6a-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.8 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 HIGH

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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