CVE-2018-18226

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-18226
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-12 06:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:55:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-772

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/commit code.wireshark.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4359-1 wireshark DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/commit MISC code.wireshark.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Wireshark · wnpa-sec-2018-48 · Steam IHS Discovery dissector memory leak MISC www.wireshark.org Vendor Advisory
Wireshark MS-WSP/Steam IHS Discovery/CoAP/OpcUa Processing Bugs Lets Remote Users Cause the Target Service to Crash - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0362-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
15171 – Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2018-10-06-3104.pcap MISC bugs.wireshark.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501312 Alpine Linux Security Update for wireshark
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