CVE-2018-9260

HIGH

Wireshark 2.2.0-2.2.13 and 2.4.0-2.4.5 - Denial of Service in IEEE 802.15.4 Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the IEEE 802.15.4 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c by ensuring that an allocation step occurs.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html
Exploit, Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14468

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0052
EPSS Percentile 67.1%
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-20
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.0 - 2.2.13
Published Apr 04, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026