vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-11356): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | May 22, 2018 | Nov 19, 2024 | May 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 22, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the DNS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference for an empty name in an SRV record.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2018-11356
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-11356
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14681
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4425716ddba99374749bd033d9bc0f4add2fb973
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11356
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-29.html
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