Out-of-bounds Read Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.6.2-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.23% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144501
- published 22 Jul 2018
- disclosed 19 Jul 2018
Introduced: 19 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-14370 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.6.2-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 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, the IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c via bounds checking that prevents a buffer over-read.
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14686
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=b1446124eebc3ea5591d18e719c2a5cff3630638
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14370
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14370
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104847
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041608
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-14370
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-43.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b1446124eebc3ea5591d18e719c2a5cff3630638