Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.2.5-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.26% (66th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144760
- published 4 Mar 2017
- disclosed 4 Mar 2017
Introduced: 4 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-6474 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.2.5-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark
package and not the wireshark
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.17
relevant fixed versions and status.
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a NetScaler file parser infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by validating record sizes.
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13429
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=a998c9195f183d85f5b0bbeebba21a2d4d303d47
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6474
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6474
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96566
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-6474
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-07.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a998c9195f183d85f5b0bbeebba21a2d4d303d47