| Name | CVE-2017-7748 |
| Description | In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the WSP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wsp.c by adding a length check. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
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 | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.2.6+g32dac6a-1 | low | | |
Notes
[jessie] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[wheezy] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-21.html
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f55cbcde2c8f74b652add4450b0592082eb6acff
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13581