CVE-2018-18226

HIGH

Wireshark < 2.6.3 - Resource Leak

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

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