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CVE-2017-5596 PUBLISHED

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the ASTERIX dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.

EPSS 0.56% · 68.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.56%
68.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSwireshark1.12.7+g7fc8978-1, 2.0.1+g59ea380-3build1, *
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSwireshark0, 1.10.3-1, 1.10.2-1

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