Excessive Iteration Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.6.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-WIRESHARK-376928
  • published22 Jul 2018
  • disclosed19 Jul 2018

Introduced: 19 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14342  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-834  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 wireshark to version 2.6.2-1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the BGP protocol dissector could go into a large loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by validating Path Attribute lengths.