CVE-2017-9345

7.5 HIGH

Published: June 02, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DNS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by trying to detect self-referencing pointers.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98798

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038612

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1206

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13633

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e280c9b637327a65d132bfe72d917b87e6844eb5

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-26.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98798