CVE-2017-7748

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the WSP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by adding a length check.

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-835

Affected software

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

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97628Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13581Issue Tracking, Patch
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f55cbcde2c8f74b652add4450b0592082eb6acff
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-21.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97628Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13581Issue Tracking, Patch
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f55cbcde2c8f74b652add4450b0592082eb6acff
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-21.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 12, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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