ALPINE-CVE-2017-5597
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5597
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5597.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5597
- Upstream
- Published
- 2017-01-25T21:59:00.183Z
- Modified
- 2026-06-15T18:25:06.621525339Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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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