vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-5336): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 11, 2018 | Nov 19, 2024 | Aug 19, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 11, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025
Description
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.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2018-5336
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-5336
- CWE-119
- DEBIAN-DSA-4101
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5336
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html
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