CVE-2017-7704
wireshark: DOF dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2017-17)
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · April 12, 2017
Updated · May 13, 2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5, the DOF dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dof.c by using a different integer data type and adjusting a return value.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE not specified