ghsa-q7cj-m22p-5m4p
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 00:27
Modified
2025-04-20 03:31
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-5597"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-190"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-01-25T21:59:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-q7cj-m22p-5m4p",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:31:32Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T00:27:01Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5597"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95798"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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