CVE-2018-9261 - Excessive Iteration

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs.

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Debian Linux

First reported 6 years ago

2018-04-04 07:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Debian Linux 9.0

9.0

References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=66bc372716e04d6a8afdf6712583c9b5d11fee55

Patch, Vendor Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20180528 [SECURITY] [DLA 1388-1] wireshark security update

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

DSA-4217

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-18.html

Vendor Advisory

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