CVE-2017-5596
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Integer overflow
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the ASTERIX dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13344 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13344Patch
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19746/Patch
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-01.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95795Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=781f03580c81339513bb1238b202b72469a1240b