vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-6472): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 4, 2017 | Nov 19, 2024 | Aug 19, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 4, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an RTMPT dissector infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rtmpt.c by properly incrementing a certain sequence value.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2017-6472
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-6472
- CWE-835
- DEBIAN-DSA-3811
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13347
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=2b3a0909beff8963b390034c594e0b6be6a4e531
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6472
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-04.html
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