The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 2.0.12. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-2.0.12 advisory.

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the RPC over RDMA dissector could go into an infinite     loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in     epan/dissectors/packet-rpcrdma.c by correctly checking for going beyond the maximum offset.
    (CVE-2017-7705)

  - In Wireshark through 2.0.13 and 2.2.x through 2.2.7, the WBXML dissector could go into an infinite loop,     triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-     wbxml.c by adding validation of the relationships between indexes and lengths. NOTE: this vulnerability     exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7702. (CVE-2017-11410)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an RTMPT dissector infinite loop, triggered by     packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rtmpt.c by     properly incrementing a certain sequence value. (CVE-2017-6472)

  - 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. (CVE-2017-7700)

  - In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop,     triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-     bgp.c by using a different integer data type. (CVE-2017-7701)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

Wireshark 2.0.x < 2.0.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 311399

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Oct 8, 2026, 2:26 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202610080226
Version 1.1 May 1, 2026, 1:37 PM New Plugin Feed: 202605011337