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CVE-2017-5597

CVE-2017-5597

EPSS 2.0%
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.
Affected products
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References
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3fhttps://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95798http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694