vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5596: wireshark -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 25, 2017
Added
Mar 19, 2017
Modified
Apr 25, 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

debian-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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