vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-16058: Improper Initialization

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 30, 2018
Added
Sep 12, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.2, 2.4.0 to 2.4.8, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.16, the Bluetooth AVDTP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btavdtp.c by properly initializing a data structure.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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