CVE-2018-9257

Summary

CVECVE-2018-9257
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-04 07:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:01:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/commit MISC code.wireshark.org Patch
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/commit code.wireshark.org
14530 – Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2018-03-14-11774.pcap MISC bugs.wireshark.org Exploit, Issue Tracking
Wireshark · wnpa-sec-2018-22 · CQL infinite loop MISC www.wireshark.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501308 Alpine Linux Security Update for wireshark
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