Out-of-bounds Write Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.2.0,2.2.14)[2.4.0,2.4.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318058
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed4 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-9264  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.2.14, 2.4.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the ADB dissector could crash with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-adb.c by checking for a length inconsistency.

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