CVE-2017-6467 (GCVE-0-2017-6467)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-04 03:38 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:33
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a Netscaler file parser infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by changing the restrictions on file size.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wiresh… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96561 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2017-03-03 00:00
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