Infinite Loop Vulnerability in Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 DOF Dissector

CVE-2017-7704 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5, the DOF dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dof.c by using a different integer data type and adjusting a return value.

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