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Wireshark : CVE-2018-5335 : WCP dissector crash

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Wireshark : CVE-2018-5335 : WCP dissector crash

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/11/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/15/2018
Modified
01/31/2018

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the WCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c by validating the available buffer length.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_2_12
  • wireshark-upgrade-2_4_4

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