CVE-2017-7705
High
CVE-2017-7705
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the RPC over RDMA dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcrdma.c by correctly checking for going beyond the maximum offset.
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-2017-7705
View original source
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the RPC over RDMA dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcrdma.c by correctly checking for going beyond the maximum offset.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97630
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13558
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=08d392bbecc8fb666bf979e70a34536007b83ea2
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-15.html