| Name | CVE-2017-5597 |
| Description | 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. |
| 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) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb9u3 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.6.20-0+deb10u9~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u9 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed | |
| 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) | 2.2.4+gcc3dc1b-1 |
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-02.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13345