vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5596: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 25, 2017 | Aug 30, 2017 | Nov 20, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 25, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Nov 20, 2025
Description
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
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