CVE-2017-7700 Information

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11 the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12 https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5