CVE-2017-6014 Information

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

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5