CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-9256
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-04
- 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-20
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the LWAPP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-lwapp.c by limiting the encapsulation levels to restrict the recursion depth.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.2.0 <= 2.2.13)
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.4.0 <= 2.4.5)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14467 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dac48f148538c706c446e5105d84ebcb54587528 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-20.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14467 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dac48f148538c706c446e5105d84ebcb54587528 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-20.html Vendor Advisory