In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 3, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 25, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Last updated
Feb 3, 2023
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.
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