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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-7420: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 23, 2018
Added
Sep 21, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the pcapng file parser could crash. This was addressed in wiretap/pcapng.c by adding a block-size check for sysdig event blocks.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
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