CVE-2017-9345 (GCVE-0-2017-9345)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-02 05:04 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:02
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Summary
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DNS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by trying to detect self-referencing pointers.
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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References
Date Public
2017-06-02 00:00
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