vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-11359): 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 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 22, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/proto.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2018-11359
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-11359
- CWE-476
- EUVD-EUVD-2018-3395
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14703
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=beaebe91b14564fb9f86f0726bab09927872721b
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-3395
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11359
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-33.html
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