Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.2.6-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.22% (60th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144779
- published 12 Apr 2017
- disclosed 12 Apr 2017
Introduced: 12 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-7700 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.2.6-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 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7700
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7700
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7700
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53