CVE-2018-18225

HIGH

Wireshark 2.6.0-2.6.3 - Denial of Service in CoAP Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the CoAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-coap.c by ensuring that the piv length is correctly computed.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041909
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105583
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15172
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0288
EPSS Percentile 85.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-682
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
opensuse/leap 15.1
wireshark/wireshark 2.6.0 - 2.6.3
Published Oct 12, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026