CVE-2017-6471 (GCVE-0-2017-6471)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-04 03:38 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:33
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Summary
In Wireshark 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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2017-03-03 00:00
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