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CVE-2017-5597

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 2.00%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-25 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2017-5597
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
2.00%

Original NVD Description

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.