In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, the DHCPv6 dissector could go into a large loop, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dhcpv6.c by changing a data type to avoid an integer overflow.
                
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-01-25T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T15:04:15.363Z
Reserved: 2017-01-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-5597
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-01-25T21:59:00.183
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-5597