CVE-2018-18227

HIGH

Wireshark 2.4.0-2.4.9 and 2.6.0-2.6.3 - Denial of Service in MS-WSP Protocol Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.9, the MS-WSP protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c by properly handling NULL return values.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15119
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-47.html
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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0184
EPSS Percentile 83.2%
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-476
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
wireshark/wireshark 2.4.0 - 2.4.9
Published Oct 12, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026