Improper Input Validation Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.2.0,2.2.15)[2.4.0,2.4.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318109
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed22 May 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 May 2018

CVE-2018-11357  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.2.15, 2.4.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LTP dissector and other dissectors could consume excessive memory. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff.c by rejecting negative lengths.

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