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CVE-2017-6014

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.

Published

2017-02-17T07:59:00.967

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-835

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wireshark	wireshark	≤ 2.2.4	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	8.0	Yes

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)