CVE-2017-6471
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.5
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a WSP infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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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 | {"startIncluding":"2.0.0","endIncluding":"2.0.10"} | |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6471.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6471
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.