Detect date
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02/17/2017 |
Severity
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Critical |
Description
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An infinite loop and memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in Wireshark versions 2.2.4 and earlier. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can possibly cause a denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed or malformed STANAG 4607 capture. Technical details The issue is related to a packet with null field of the packet size in the packet header. In this case, the offset to read from will not advance. Contininuous attempts to read the same zero-length packet will soon exhaust all system memory. |
Affected products
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Wireshark 2.0.0 to 2.0.10 |
Solution
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Update to the latest version |
Original advisories
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Impacts
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DoS [?] |
Related products
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Wireshark |
CVE-IDS
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