CVE-2017-6470

HIGH

Wireshark < 2.0.10 - Infinite Loop

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an IAX2 infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-iax2.c by constraining packet lateness.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13432
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-10.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96563
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 59.8%
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-835
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
wireshark/wireshark 2.0.0 - 2.0.10
Published Mar 04, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026