Vulnerability CVE-2017-5596
Published: 2017-01-25   Modified: 2017-01-26

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

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wireshark -> Wireshark 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95795
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13344
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19746/
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=781f03580c81339513bb1238b202b72469a1240b
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-01.html
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