CVE-2018-9274 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Wireshark

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption7 documents6 sources

Severity

7.5HIGHNVD

EPSS

0.4%

top 40.40%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Wireshark Debian Wireshark

Timeline

PublishedApr 4

Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, ui/failure_message.c has a memory leak.

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 2.4.6-1 (bookworm)

▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 2.4.6-1+3

▶NVDwireshark/wireshark2.2.0 — 2.2.13+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-qhxx-m82r-7c2f: In Wireshark 2↗2022-05-13

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OSV

CVE-2018-9274: In Wireshark 2↗2018-04-04

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📋Vendor Advisories

Red Hat

wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c↗2018-03-06

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Debian

CVE-2018-9274: wireshark - In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, ui/failure_message.c has a memo...↗2018

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💬Community

Bugzilla

CVE-2018-9274 wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c↗2018-04-10

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Bugzilla

CVE-2018-9256 CVE-2018-9257 CVE-2018-9258 CVE-2018-9261 CVE-2018-9263 CVE-2018-9265 CVE-2018-9266 CVE-2018-9267 CVE-2018-9268 CVE-2018-9269 CVE-2018-9270 CVE-2018-9271 CVE-2018-9272 CVE-2018-9273 CVE-↗2018-04-10

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