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CVE-2017-6014 json

In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion.

published 2017-02-17 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15082

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.2.5+g440fd4d-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6014

  • wireshark Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • wireshark Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.2.6+g32dac6a-2ubuntu0.16.04

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6014

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wireshark SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 2.2.6-44.3
  • wireshark SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.0.12-36.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1442-1SUSE-SU-2017:1174-1

  • wireshark Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +17 more 2.2.4-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-6014

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-6014 updated cvss 3.3

wireshark: Memory exhaustion/infinite loop via malformed STANAG 4607 capture file

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.