CVE-2017-7748 in Wireshark

Summary

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the WSP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by adding a length check.

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• Reservation: 04/12/2017
• Disclosure: 04/12/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-99758 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.9
• EPSS: 0.00325
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7748
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7748
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-7748/