High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 12, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7701
CVE-2017-7701
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.
Affected products
18cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 17 more
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatch
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97632nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-16.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038262nvd
- code.wireshark.org/review/gitwebnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12nvd
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