CVE-2018-5336 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Wireshark

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WiresharkDebian WiresharkDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJan 11
Latest updateMay 14

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.

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 2.4.4-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 2.4.4-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark2.2.0 — 2.2.11+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7xxh-26w2-h47g: In Wireshark 2↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-5336: In Wireshark 2↗2018-01-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash↗2018-01-11
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Debian
CVE-2018-5336: wireshark - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and G...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5336 libtiff: wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash [fedora-all]↗2018-01-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5336 wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash↗2018-01-15
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