CVE-2018-9261
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-834
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
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=14471Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-18.htmlAdvisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66bc372716e04d6a8afdf6712583c9b5d11fee55
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.htmlAdvisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217Advisory