Infinite loop in Wireshark



Published: 2017-04-13 | Updated: 2020-08-04
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2017-7701
CWE-ID CWE-835
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		Wireshark
Server applications / IDS/IPS systems, Firewalls and proxy servers

Vendor Wireshark.org

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Infinite loop

EUVDB-ID: #VU33533

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7701

CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Wireshark: 2.0.0 - 2.2.5

CPE2.3 External links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97632
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13557
http://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=fa31f69b407436d0946f84baa0acdcc50962bf7a
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.html


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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