Memory corruption in Wireshark - CVE-2018-7419

 

Memory corruption in Wireshark - CVE-2018-7419

Published: February 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10766
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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-2018-7419
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Wireshark.org
Affected software:
Wireshark

Detailed vulnerability 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/asn1/nbap/nbap.cnf when DCH ID initialization. A remote attacker can cause the NBAP dissector to crash.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-7419

Update to version 2.2.13, 2.4.5.

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