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CVE-2017-11406

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.7 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.13, the DOCSIS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/docsis/packet-docsis.c by rejecting invalid Frame Control parameter values.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.0.0 through 2.0.13; from 2.2.0 through 2.2.7

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99903
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038966
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13797
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=250216263c3a3f2c651e80d9c6b3dc0adc53dc2c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-36.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99903
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038966
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13797
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=250216263c3a3f2c651e80d9c6b3dc0adc53dc2c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-36.html

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