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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-9262: Improper Input Validation

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-9262: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/04/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/03/2018
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark

References

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