CVE-2017-5596: Wireshark

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the ASTERIX dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-asterix.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2017-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.