High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 17, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-6014
CVE-2017-6014
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.
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Affected products
15- osv-coords12 versionspkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2
< 2.2.6-44.3+ 11 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.12-36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.12-36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.12-36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.6-44.3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12nvdThird Party Advisory
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