DNS Dissector Infinite Loop Vulnerability

CVE-2017-9345 · HIGH Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.6 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.12, the DNS dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by trying to detect self-referencing pointers.

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