vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-9264): 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 | Aug 19, 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
Aug 19, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the ADB dissector could crash with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-adb.c by checking for a length inconsistency.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2018-9264
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-9264
- CWE-787
- DEBIAN-DSA-4217
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14460
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=0290a62be0fca8da9bb190f59dc1fe26c1d65024
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9264
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-16.html
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