CVE-2017-5597

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5597
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5597.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5597
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-01-25T21:59:00.183Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:26:52.684908Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
9a73b827b22c7ce9132e939b9f07ec4425fc2aa6
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
59ea380c69dca2bc2f97fa97c1bf410bbcd2411c
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a16e22ed9cbbc599fe8b7b8e40a6696a0138c489
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
eed34f0ac6696c053585ddf75c5805b3d5b395cf
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
dd7746e6f1b034048cd986ca6f44291e712cc1fc
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a3be9c6de540ae1fade63568cc77d928b3c52ef7
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
d0e42d78193cfacd1022656cd8dad7fc222e6dbc
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
daac0f493f09ff68e194a30bf0f5318db96b99cd
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
9af92735baf48cac9779176a9319f6a5c1115cb6
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
b2423a12c30165075e9d0d033da7d562e0efc05b
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5368c50be46d4a44986d12bdfc0a35b42c0f34fc
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a6fbd278e2d72ed3524995464c86929b51867802
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
775fb085cdfebafa565c5b428f0a130d82dbefcb
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
57531cdd46cf170524c1fbbfd2c44132bb36e7c6
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.8"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.9"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
backups/ethereal@18706
ethereal-0-3-15
start
ethereal-0.*
ethereal-0.3.15
v1.*
v1.11.0
v1.11.0-rc1
v1.11.1
v1.11.1-rc1
v1.11.2
v1.11.2-rc1
v1.11.3
v1.11.3-rc1
v1.11.4-rc1
v1.99.0
v1.99.0-rc1
v1.99.1
v1.99.10rc0
v1.99.1rc0
v1.99.2
v1.99.2rc0
v1.99.3
v1.99.3rc0
v1.99.4
v1.99.4rc0
v1.99.5
v1.99.5rc0
v1.99.6
v1.99.6rc0
v1.99.7
v1.99.7rc0
v1.99.8
v1.99.8rc0
v1.99.9
v1.99.9rc0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0rc0
v2.0.0rc1
v2.0.0rc2
v2.0.0rc3
v2.1.0
v2.1.0rc0
v2.1.1
v2.1.1rc0
v2.1.2rc0
v2.2.0
v2.2.0rc0
v2.2.0rc1
v2.2.0rc2
wireshark-1.*
wireshark-1.11.3
wireshark-1.99.0
wireshark-1.99.1
wireshark-1.99.2
wireshark-1.99.3
wireshark-1.99.4
wireshark-1.99.5
wireshark-1.99.6
wireshark-1.99.7
wireshark-1.99.8
wireshark-1.99.9
wireshark-2.*
wireshark-2.0.0
wireshark-2.1.0
wireshark-2.1.1
wireshark-2.2.0
wireshark-2.2.0rc1
wireshark-2.2.0rc2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5597.json"