CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-9257
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-835
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the CQL dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cql.c by checking for a nonzero number of columns.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.4.0 <= 2.4.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14530 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d7a9501b0439a5dbf24016a95b4896170d789dc2 code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14530 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d7a9501b0439a5dbf24016a95b4896170d789dc2 code.wireshark.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22.html Vendor Advisory