CVE-2017-6471

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is a WSP infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.

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-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96564Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 4, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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