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CVE-2017-7700

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.0.0 through 2.0.11; from 2.2.0 through 2.2.5

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97631
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html

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