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CVE-2017-7700

medium

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-12

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0051