# CVE-2017-6014: In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-02-17 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, 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.

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## Related

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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96284
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-12
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3811
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13416

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