Wireshark 'STANAG 4607' Capture File Denial of Service Vulnerability - Mac OS X
🗓️ 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-6014 | 17 Feb 201707:45 | – | alpinelinux | |
| Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-02230) | 21 Feb 201700:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2017-6014 | 17 Feb 201707:45 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2017-6014 | 17 Feb 201707:45 | – | cvelist | |
| [SECURITY] [DLA 826-1] wireshark security update | 17 Feb 201723:03 | – | debian | |
| [SECURITY] [DSA 3811-1] wireshark security update | 18 Mar 201713:08 | – | debian | |
| CVE-2017-6014 | 17 Feb 201707:45 | – | debiancve | |
| Debian DLA-826-1 : wireshark security update | 21 Feb 201700:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-3811-1 : wireshark - security update | 20 Mar 201700:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 25 : wireshark (2017-4373306257) | 8 May 201700:00 | – | nessus |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.810700");
script_version("2025-09-17T05:39:26+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6014");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-17 05:39:26 +0000 (Wed, 17 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-02-21 15:26:53 +0530 (Tue, 21 Feb 2017)");
script_name("Wireshark 'STANAG 4607' Capture File Denial of Service Vulnerability - Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to a crafted or
malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory
exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset
to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same
zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote
attackers to cause the application to enter an infinite loop and consume
excessive CPU resources, resulting in denial-of-service conditions.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark versions 2.2.4 and prior
on Mac OS X.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to Wireshark 2.2.5 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://git.net/ml/general/2017-02/msg20415.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/macosx/detected");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less_equal(version:vers, test_version:"2.2.4")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.2.5", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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17 Sep 2025 00:00Current
7.5High risk
Vulners AI Score7.5
CVSS 37.5
CVSS 27.8
EPSS0.02705