vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-7420): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Feb 23, 2018 | Nov 19, 2024 | May 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 23, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the pcapng file parser could crash. This was addressed in wiretap/pcapng.c by adding a block-size check for sysdig event blocks.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2018-7420
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-7420
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14403
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=129e41f9f63885ad8224ef413c2860788fb9e849
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7420
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-11.html
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