vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-5336: wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 11, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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