CVE-2018-18226
HIGHWireshark 2.6.0-2.6.3 - Denial of Service in Steam IHS Discovery Dissector
Title source: llmDescription
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)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041909
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15171
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105583
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e920ddc3cad2886ef07ca1a8e50e2a5c50986f7
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-48.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0317
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
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