CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-9261
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-834
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.2.0 <= 2.2.13)
• wireshark wireshark (>= 2.4.0 <= 2.4.5)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-834 Excessive Iteration weakness
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66bc372716e04d6a8afdf6712583c9b5d11fee55 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-18.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66bc372716e04d6a8afdf6712583c9b5d11fee55 code.wireshark.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-18.html Vendor Advisory