CVE-2017-5597

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.

• CWE-190

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95798
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95798
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037694
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/19747/Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57894f741f7cc98b46c9fdce7eee8256d2a4ae3f
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.htmlVendor Advisory

Published

Jan 25, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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