CVE-2017-5597
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.47%Published: 1/25/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/wiresharkfrom 0, < 2.2.4-r0
- Debian/wiresharkfrom 0, < 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |