CVE-2017-5597
High
CVE-2017-5597
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.
Exploit probability
2.0%
Published
January 25, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
14 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-5597
View original source
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95798
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.html