Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2017-7702 |
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.
EUVDB-ID: #VU33534
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-2017-7702
CWE-ID:
CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe 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 WBXML dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wbxml.c by adding length validation.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsWireshark: 2.0.0 - 2.2.5
CPE2.3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97633
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13477
http://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=2f322f66cbcca2fefdaa630494f9d6c97eb659b7
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-13.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.