Buffer overflow in Wireshark - CVE-2018-11360

 

Buffer overflow in Wireshark - CVE-2018-11360

Published: May 29, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13032
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11360
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_a_dtap.c due to off-by-one error. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet onto the wire or convince someone to read a malformed packet trace file, trigger buffer overflow and cause the GSM A DTAP dissector to crash.

Affected software

Wireshark
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Opensuse
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
openSUSE Leap
wireshark

How to mitigate CVE-2018-11360

The vulnerability is addressed in the following versions: 2.6.1, 2.4.7, 2.2.15.

wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 2.2.15-r0
wireshark - addressed in versions 2.6.1-1.fc27, 2.6.1-1.fc28

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