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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5334: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 11, 2018
Added
Feb 20, 2018
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash. This was addressed in wiretap/vwr.c by correcting the signature timestamp bounds checks.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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