vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-7700): wireshark vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Apr 12, 2017 | Nov 19, 2024 | May 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025
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
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2017-7700
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-7700
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7700
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html

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