Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5596

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-25 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:04:15
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the ASTERIX dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.