vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-19625): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Nov 29, 2018 | Nov 19, 2024 | Aug 19, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 29, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 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
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2018-19625
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-19625
- CWE-125
- DEBIAN-DSA-4359
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14466
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=dc4d209f39132a4ae05675a11609176ae9705cfc
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19625
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-51.html
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