Improper Input Validation Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.2.0,2.2.16)[2.4.0,2.4.8)[2.6.0,2.6.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318431
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed19 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14339  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.2.16, 2.4.8, 2.6.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/proto.c by adding offset and length validation.

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