CVE-2018-9258
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Improper input validation
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the TCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c by preserving valid data sources.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14472Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-21.htmlAdvisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2d4695de1477df60b0188fd581c0c279db601978
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.htmlAdvisory