CVE-2018-7337

HIGH

Wireshark 2.4.0-2.4.4 - Denial of Service in DOCSIS Protocol Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the DOCSIS protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in plugins/docsis/packet-docsis.c by removing the recursive algorithm that had been used for concatenated PDUs.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103164
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14446
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-08.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0070
EPSS Percentile 72.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
wireshark/wireshark 2.4.0 - 2.4.4
Published Feb 23, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026