SB2017041303 - Infinite loop in Wireshark
Published: April 13, 2017 Updated: August 4, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017041303
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7701)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97632
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13557
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=fa31f69b407436d0946f84baa0acdcc50962bf7a
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.html