CVE-2018-9261

Summary

CVECVE-2018-9261
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 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-834

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/commit MISC code.wireshark.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
14471 – Crafted NBAP packet causes heap-buffer-overflow write MISC bugs.wireshark.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Wireshark · wnpa-sec-2018-18 · NBAP dissector crash MISC www.wireshark.org Vendor Advisory
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/commit code.wireshark.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1388-1] wireshark security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4217-1 wireshark DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party 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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