CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5336
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.2.0 <= 2.2.11)
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.4.0 <= 2.4.3)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102504 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b code.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102504 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b code.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html Vendor Advisory