vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-19625: wireshark: Heap-based buffer over-read in the dissection engine

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 29, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff_composite.c by preventing a heap-based buffer over-read.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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