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Debian: CVE-2017-6470: wireshark -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 3, 2017
Added
Mar 19, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an IAX2 infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-iax2.c by constraining packet lateness.

Solution

debian-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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