High severity · published Feb 17, 2017
CVE-2017-6014
In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion
7.5
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
WI
Wireshark · Wireshark
through 2.2.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6014
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6014
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
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