CVE-2017-7700
Moderate
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.
Exploit probability
2.1%
Published
April 12, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
53 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-7700
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html