CVE-2017-6471 in Wireshark

Sumário

de VulDB • 11/06/2026

In Wireshark versions 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a WSP infinite loop triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.

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• Reservar: 03/03/2017
• Divulgação: 03/03/2017
• Moderação: aceite
• Entrada: VDB-97542
• CPE: pronto
• CWE: CWE-20 (confirmado)
• CVSS: 7.5 (NVD)
• EPSS: 0.02616
• KEV: não
• Atividades: muito baixo
• Sector: Telecommunication, Police, ...

Fontes

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6471
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6471
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6471/