Infinite Loop Vulnerability in Wireshark SLSK Dissector
CVE-2017-7746 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11, the SLSK dissector could go into an infinite loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-slsk.c by adding checks for the remaining length.
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