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CVE-2017-5597

CVE-2017-5597 PUBLISHED

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.

EPSS 0.47% · 65.2th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.47%
65.2th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSwireshark0, 1.12.7+g7fc8978-1, 1.12.8+g5b6e543-2
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSwireshark0, 1.10.5-1ubuntu1, 1.10.2-1

Timeline

  • Jan 25, 2017 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
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