vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7704: Infinite Loop

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5, the DOF dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dof.c by using a different integer data type and adjusting a return value.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
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