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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=781f03580c81339513bb1238b202b72469a1240b
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95795
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13344
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-01.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19746/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0056
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-190
CWE-835
Status
published
Products (14)
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.0
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.1
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.2
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.3
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.4
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.5
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.6
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.7
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.8
wireshark/wireshark
2.0.9
... and 4 more
Published
Jan 25, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026