vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5597: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2017-01-25
Added
2017-08-30
Modified
2024-10-01

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
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