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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-9345: Infinite Loop

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 2, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DNS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by trying to detect self-referencing pointers.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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