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CVE-2017-6014 (GCVE-0-2017-6014)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-17 07:45 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:18
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2017-02-17 00:00
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