Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting wireshark package, versions [,2.0.10)[2.2.0, 2.2.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318387
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed25 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5596  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.0.10, 2.2.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the ASTERIX dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.

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