NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libspandsp2 package, versions <0.0.6-3.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBSPANDSP2-2715345
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed8 Apr 2020

Introduced: 8 Apr 2020

CVE-2018-11359  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libspandsp2 to version 0.0.6-3.2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libspandsp2 package and not the libspandsp2 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/proto.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference.