CVE-2017-6472: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.10, there is an RTMPT dissector infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rtmpt.c by properly incrementing a certain sequence value.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: from 2.0.0, up to and including 2.0.10; from 2.2.0, up to and including 2.2.4

Published 2017-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.