CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7701

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Apr 12, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.9 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.1 (including) 2.0.1 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.2 (including) 2.0.2 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.3 (including) 2.0.3 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.4 (including) 2.0.4 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.5 (including) 2.0.5 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.6 (including) 2.0.6 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.7 (including) 2.0.7 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.8 (including) 2.0.8 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.9 (including) 2.0.9 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.10 (including) 2.0.10 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.0.11 (including) 2.0.11 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.0 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.1 (including) 2.2.1 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.2 (including) 2.2.2 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.3 (including) 2.2.3 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.4 (including) 2.2.4 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.2.5 (including) 2.2.5 (including)
Wireshark Ubuntu artful *
Wireshark Ubuntu bionic *
Wireshark Ubuntu precise *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu upstream *
Wireshark Ubuntu xenial *
Wireshark Ubuntu yakkety *
Wireshark Ubuntu zesty *

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