CVE-2017-5596

Publication date 25 January 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
wireshark 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.2.6+g32dac6a-2ubuntu0.16.04
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H