High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-6014
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.2.4 and earlier, a crafted or malformed STANAG 4607 capture file will cause an infinite loop and memory exhaustion. If the packet size field in a packet header is null, the offset to read from will not advance, causing continuous attempts to read the same zero length packet. This will quickly exhaust all system memory.
osv:CVE-2017-6014
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:54.087465125Z",
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