Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wireshark  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-WIRESHARK-598353
  • published14 Sept 2018
  • disclosed14 Sept 2018

Introduced: 14 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-12086  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark package and not the wireshark package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Buffer overflow in OPC UA applications allows remote attackers to trigger a stack overflow with carefully structured requests.