CVE-2018-7337 Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.4.0,2.4.5)


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-2318492
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed23 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7337  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.4.5 or higher.

Overview

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the DOCSIS protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in plugins/docsis/packet-docsis.c by removing the recursive algorithm that had been used for concatenated PDUs.

References

CVSS Scores

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