In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the RPC over RDMA dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcrdma.c by correctly checking for going beyond the maximum offset.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade wireshark | Sep 20, 2017 | Apr 12, 2017 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade wireshark | Jul 30, 2024 | Apr 12, 2017 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade net-analyzer/wireshark. | Oct 30, 2017 | Apr 12, 2017 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade diagnostic/wireshark/tshark to version 2.2.6-0.175.3.21.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade diagnostic/wireshark/wireshark-common to version 2.2.6-0.175.3.21.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade diagnostic/wireshark to version 2.2.6-0.175.3.21.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.3 | Jun 20, 2017 | Apr 12, 2017 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Apr 12, 2017 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libwsutil7Upgrade libwsutil11Upgrade libwireshark8Upgrade libwiretap10Upgrade libwiretap7Upgrade libwireshark9Upgrade libwiretap6Upgrade wireshark-ui-qtUpgrade wireshark-gtkUpgrade wireshark-develUpgrade wiresharkUpgrade libwsutil8Upgrade libwireshark13Upgrade libwscodecs1 | Apr 21, 2017 | Apr 12, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade wireshark | Nov 19, 2024 | Apr 12, 2017 |
| Wireshark | — | Upgrade to Wireshark version 2.0.12Upgrade to Wireshark version 2.2.6 | Oct 4, 2017 | Apr 12, 2017 |
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