vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2018-9261 : NBAP dissector crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 4, 2018
Added
Apr 25, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs.

Solutions

wireshark-upgrade-2_2_14wireshark-upgrade-2_4_6
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