CVE-2018-6836

Description

The netmonrec_comment_destroy function in wiretap/netmon.c in Wireshark through 2.4.4 performs a free operation on an uninitialized memory address, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

References

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=28960d79cca262ac6b974f339697b299a1e28fef

https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/25660/2/wiretap/netmon.c

https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/25660/

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14397

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3