CVE-2017-6471 Information

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10 there is a WSP infinite loop triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by validating the capability length.

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/96564 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html

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