CVE-2017-7701
High
CVE-2017-7701
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.
Exploit probability
2.7%
Published
April 12, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
18 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-7701
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In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97632
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13557
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa31f69b407436d0946f84baa0acdcc50962bf7a
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.html