Infinite Loop Vulnerability in Wireshark SIGCOMP Dissector

CVE-2017-7745 · HIGH Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the SIGCOMP dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-sigcomp.c by correcting a memory-size check.

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