CVE-2017-9345
High
CVE-2017-9345
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DNS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by trying to detect self-referencing pointers.
Exploit probability
3.0%
Published
June 2, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
59 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-9345
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In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DNS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by trying to detect self-referencing pointers.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98798
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038612
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1206
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13633
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e280c9b637327a65d132bfe72d917b87e6844eb5
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-26.html