CVE-2017-7701
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-835
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.
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=13557 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13557Patch
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97632Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa31f69b407436d0946f84baa0acdcc50962bf7a
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12