Memory corruption in Wireshark - CVE-2018-6836
Published: March 13, 2018 / Updated: March 20, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10954
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6836
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 unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the netmonrec_comment_destroy function due to boundary error when using the netmonrec_comment_destroy function as defined in the wiretap/netmon.c source code file. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the netmonrec_comment_destroy function due to boundary error when using the netmonrec_comment_destroy function as defined in the wiretap/netmon.c source code file. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6836
Install update from vendor's website.