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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-19622): wireshark vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 29, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c by preventing length overflows.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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