CVE-2018-14342 — Excessive Iteration in Wireshark

CWE-834 — Excessive IterationCWE-835 — Infinite Loop7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WiresharkDebian WiresharkDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJul 19
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the BGP protocol dissector could go into a large loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by validating Path Attribute lengths.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wireshark< wireshark 2.6.2-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 2.6.2-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark2.2.0 — 2.2.15+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h3jw-crr6-78mf: In Wireshark 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-14342: In Wireshark 2↗2018-07-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: BGP dissector large loop (wnpa-sec-2018-34)↗2018-07-18
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Debian
CVE-2018-14342: wireshark - In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the BGP protoc...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-14339 CVE-2018-14340 CVE-2018-14341 CVE-2018-14342 CVE-2018-14343 CVE-2018-14344 CVE-2018-14367 CVE-2018-14368 CVE-2018-14369 CVE-2018-14370 wireshark: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-07-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-14342 wireshark: BGP dissector large loop (wnpa-sec-2018-34)↗2018-07-23
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