NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wireshark  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1810-WIRESHARK-614143
  • published12 Oct 2018
  • disclosed12 Oct 2018

Introduced: 12 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18227  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.9, the MS-WSP protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c by properly handling NULL return values.