vulnerability
Wireshark : CVE-2018-11356 : DNS dissector crash
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | May 22, 2018 | May 23, 2018 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 22, 2018
Added
May 23, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the DNS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference for an empty name in an SRV record.
Solutions
wireshark-upgrade-2_2_15wireshark-upgrade-2_4_7wireshark-upgrade-2_6_1
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