Excessive Iteration Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.4.5-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.24% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144746
- published 23 Feb 2018
- disclosed 23 Feb 2018
Introduced: 23 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-7323 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 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, epan/dissectors/packet-wccp.c had a large loop that was addressed by ensuring that a calculated length was monotonically increasing.
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14412
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4f9199ea8cff56c6704e9828c3d80360b27c4565
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=5d45b69b590cabc5127282d1ade3bca1598e5f5c
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7323
- 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-2018-7323
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103158
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-7323
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-06.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f9199ea8cff56c6704e9828c3d80360b27c4565
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5d45b69b590cabc5127282d1ade3bca1598e5f5c