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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7700: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-wireshark
Title
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