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.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-858-1 wireshark security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3811-1 wireshark security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-14696 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.
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00475}

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{'score': 0.00478}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:04:15.363Z

Reserved: 2017-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-5597

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-25T21:59:00.183

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-5597

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-01-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-5597 - Bugzilla

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