Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.2.6+g32dac6a-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-WIRESHARK-375776
  • published12 Apr 2017
  • disclosed12 Apr 2017

Introduced: 12 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7701  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 wireshark to version 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.