Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.
References (7)
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0148
EPSS Percentile
81.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-772
Status
published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
wireshark/wireshark
2.6.0 - 2.6.3
Published
Oct 12, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026