CVE-2017-7700
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · CWE-835
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478Patch
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.htmlAdvisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12Advisory