Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff_composite.c by preventing a heap-based buffer over-read.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14466
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc4d209f39132a4ae05675a11609176ae9705cfc
Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-51.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106051
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0027
EPSS Percentile
50.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
wireshark/wireshark
2.4.0 - 2.4.10
Published
Nov 29, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026