Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5597

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-25 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:04:15
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.