CVE-2018-9256

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the LWAPP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-lwapp.c by limiting the encapsulation levels to restrict the recursion depth.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-20.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dac48f148538c706c446e5105d84ebcb54587528

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14467

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3