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 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 4, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
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
- CWE-20
- EUVD-EUVD-2018-20856
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14469
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f05c3b91f9571210b86576ee6284e71a3306109d
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-20856
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9262
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-19.html
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