In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16677 In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the BGP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by using a different integer data type.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:12:27.740Z

Reserved: 2017-04-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7701

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-04-12T23:59:00.200

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-7701

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-04-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7701 - Bugzilla

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