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CVE-2017-6014

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: through 2.2.4

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12

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