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Debian: CVE-2018-9261: wireshark -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-9261: wireshark -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/04/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/05/2018
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-wireshark

References

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