CVE-2018-5336

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-01-11

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102504
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html