CVE-2017-6471
High
CVE-2017-6471
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a WSP infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.
Exploit probability
2.6%
Published
March 4, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
47 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-6471
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In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a WSP infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html