vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-9262): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Apr 4, 2018 | Nov 19, 2024 | May 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 4, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2018-9262
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-9262
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14469
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f05c3b91f9571210b86576ee6284e71a3306109d
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9262
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-19.html
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