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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
Feb 23, 2018
Added
Apr 25, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

wireshark-upgrade-2_2_13wireshark-upgrade-2_4_5
Title
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