CVE-2018-7320 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Wireshark

CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer OverflowCWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure9 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WiresharkDebian WiresharkDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedFeb 23
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, the SIGCOMP protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-sigcomp.c by validating operand offsets.

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 2.4.5-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 2.4.5-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark2.2.0 — 2.2.12+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-45vr-8xvm-rhpc: In Wireshark 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-7320: In Wireshark 2↗2018-02-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
gnome-keyring: login credentials retrieval via a Secret Service API call↗2018-07-06
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Red Hat
wireshark: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in SIGCOMP dissector crash in packet-sigcomp.c↗2018-02-06
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Debian
CVE-2018-7320: wireshark - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, the SIGCOMP protocol dissector ...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7320 wireshark: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in SIGCOMP dissector crash in packet-sigcomp.c↗2018-02-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7320 wireshark: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in SIGCOMP dissector crash in packet-sigcomp.c [fedora-all]↗2018-02-26
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