CVE-2017-6014

Debian Security Advisory 3811-1

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.

En Wireshark 2.2.4 y versiones anteriores, un archivo de captura STANAG 4607 manipulado o mal formado causará un bucle infinito y agotamiento de memoria. Si el campo de tamaño de paquete en un encabezado de paquete es nulo, el desplazamiento a leer no avanzará, provocando intentos continuos para leer el mismo paquete de longitud cero. Esto agotará rápidamente toda la memoria del sistema.

It was discovered that wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, contained several vulnerabilities in the dissectors for ASTERIX , DHCPv6, NetScaler, LDSS, IAX2, WSP, K12 and STANAG 4607, that could lead to various crashes, denial-of-service or execution of arbitrary code.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-02-16 CVE Reserved
2017-02-17 CVE Published
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811	2019-10-03
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416	2019-10-03
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12	2019-10-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Wireshark Search vendor "Wireshark"		Wireshark Search vendor "Wireshark" for product "Wireshark"				<= 2.2.4 Search vendor "Wireshark" for product "Wireshark" and version " <= 2.2.4"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				8.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "8.0"		-		Affected