CVE-2017-5597

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 25, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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