CVE-2018-7417 Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.4.5-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.22% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144427
- published 23 Feb 2018
- disclosed 23 Feb 2018
Introduced: 23 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-7417 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.4.5-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark
package and not the wireshark
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.17
relevant fixed versions and status.
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the IPMI dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ipmi-picmg.c by adding support for crafted packets that lack an IPMI header.
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14409
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=81216a176b25dd8a616e11808a951e141a467009
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7417
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7417
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103156
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-7417
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-12.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81216a176b25dd8a616e11808a951e141a467009