#VU10765 Memory corruption in Wireshark - CVE-2018-7418

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#VU10765 Memory corruption in Wireshark - CVE-2018-7418

Published: February 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10765
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7418
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Wireshark
Software vendor:
Wireshark.org

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in epan/dissectors/packet-sigcomp.c when extraction of the length value. A remote attacker can cause the SIGCOMP dissector to crash.


Remediation

Update to version 2.2.13, 2.4.5.

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