SB2017042809 - Infinite loop in wireshark (Alpine package)
Published: April 28, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017042809
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
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=c1e7edb9240a8c3d0893da2c7e6b098117459a5d
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e60cdc58fdbbe1c315e9327497e04e61dd8bd4b4
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=7f2025713837d373400e4e9dbca65587de557be6
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=0ac366ad2d5b3b89ad6ead39c25460c929cd823c
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=a3941a00036014165b8ba5ecdf3b74264d05f3c4