CVE-2017-6014

high

Published 2017-02-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.2.5+g440fd4d-2`
sid	Fixed	`2.2.5+g440fd4d-2`
forky	Fixed	`2.2.5+g440fd4d-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.2.5+g440fd4d-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.2.5+g440fd4d-2`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wireshark	wireshark	`{"endIncluding":"2.2.4"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-835

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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