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Wireshark : CVE-2018-7420 : Pcapng file parser crash

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Wireshark : CVE-2018-7420 : Pcapng file parser crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/23/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
04/25/2018

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(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_2_13
  • wireshark-upgrade-2_4_5

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