Out-of-Bounds Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.2.0,2.2.12)[2.4.0,2.4.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318531
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed11 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5336  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.2.12, 2.4.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds when the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

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CVSS Scores

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