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CVE-2017-7700
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed…
Medium6.5EPSS 2.1%
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- mitre
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the NetScaler file parser could go into an infinite loop, triggered by a malformed capture file. This was addressed in wiretap/netscaler.c by ensuring a nonzero record size.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (7)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13478 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-14.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8fc0af859de4993951a915ad735be350221f3f53 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190115 [SECURITY] [DLA 1634-1] wireshark security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 97631 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1038262 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201706-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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