Out-of-bounds Write Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.4.6-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.23% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144738
- published 4 Apr 2018
- disclosed 4 Apr 2018
Introduced: 4 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-9264 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.4.6-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 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the ADB dissector could crash with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-adb.c by checking for a length inconsistency.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9264
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-9264
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14460
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=0290a62be0fca8da9bb190f59dc1fe26c1d65024
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-9264
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-16.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0290a62be0fca8da9bb190f59dc1fe26c1d65024