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CVE-2017-7700

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.

Published

2017-04-12T23:59:00.153

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-835

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wireshark	wireshark	≤ 2.0.11	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	≤ 2.2.5	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	8.0	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478 Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53 ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478 Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)