Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the SLSK dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-slsk.c by adding checks for the remaining length.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=58e69cc769dea24b721abd8a29f9eedc11024b7e
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13576
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97635
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-19.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0204
EPSS Percentile
83.9%
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 (19)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
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
... and 9 more
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026