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CVE-2017-5596
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-25T21:59:00.137 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:20:48.520

Summary

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.

Affected products

wireshark — wireshark

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References

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