Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97632
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13557
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0053
EPSS Percentile
67.3%
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-835
Status
published
Products (18)
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 8 more
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026