CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16057

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-08-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2018-08-30
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.2, 2.4.0 to 2.4.8, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.16, the Radiotap dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211-radiotap-iter.c by validating iterator operations.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.2.0 <= 2.2.16) • wireshark wireshark (>= 2.4.0 <= 2.4.8) • wireshark wireshark (>= 2.6.0 <= 2.6.2) • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105174 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041609 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15022 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bbf46eb46ae38392af8e6cd288795f0def50a621 code.wireshark.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4315 Third Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-46.html Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105174 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041609 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15022 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bbf46eb46ae38392af8e6cd288795f0def50a621 code.wireshark.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4315 Third Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-46.html Vendor Advisory