Memory corruption in Wireshark - CVE-2018-7420
Published: February 27, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10767
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-2018-7420
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Wireshark.org
Affected software:
Wireshark
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 in wiretap/pcapng.c due to when checking for sysdig event blocks. A remote attacker can cause the pcapng file parser to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-7420
Update to version 2.2.13, 2.4.5.