| Name | CVE-2017-6471 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-858-1, DSA-3811-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 4.4.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | wheezy | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u7 | DLA-858-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11 | DSA-3811-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.2.5+g440fd4d-2 |
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-05.html
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=62afef41277dfac37f515207ca73d33306e3302b
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13348