vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-18226)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 12, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A flaw has been discovered in wireshark >= 2.6.0 and < 2.6.4 in the Steam IHS Discovery dissector where dynamically allocated memory was not properly freed on exception. This could be used by an attacker to crash wireshark by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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