Excessive Iteration Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.4.6-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-WIRESHARK-376877
  • published4 Apr 2018
  • disclosed4 Apr 2018

Introduced: 4 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-9261  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-834  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 wireshark to version 2.4.6-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In 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.