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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-7418: Security patch for wireshark (ALAS-2020-1438)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-7418: Security patch for wireshark (ALAS-2020-1438)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/23/2018
Created
06/18/2020
Added
06/18/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the SIGCOMP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-sigcomp.c by correcting the extraction of the length value.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-wireshark
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-wireshark-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-wireshark-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-wireshark-gnome

References

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