CVE-2017-6014
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.42%wireshark - security update
Published: 2/17/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/wiresharkfrom 0, < 2.2.4-r1
- Debian/wiresharkfrom 0, < 2.2.5+g440fd4d-2
- Debian/wiresharkfrom 0, < 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |