CVE-2017-5596

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Publication date:

25/01/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.3:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.3:::::::*

CVE-2017-5596

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools