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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-18226: Vulnerability in Wireshark

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-18226: Vulnerability in Wireshark

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/12/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/19/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-2-6-4-11-4-3-0-1-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-tshark-2-6-4-11-4-3-0-1-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-diagnostic-wireshark-wireshark-common-2-6-4-11-4-3-0-1-4-0

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