Resource exhaustion in Wireshark - CVE-2018-14342
Published: July 30, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14106
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-2018-14342
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 due to a flaw when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet onto the wire or trick the victim into reading a malformed packet trace file, consume excessive CPU resources and cause the BGP dissector to crash.
The weakness exists due to a flaw when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet onto the wire or trick the victim into reading a malformed packet trace file, consume excessive CPU resources and cause the BGP dissector to crash.
Affected software
Wireshark
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
Opensuse
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
Opensuse
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2018-14342
The vulnerability is addressed in the versions 2.6.2, 2.4.8, 2.2.16
Wireshark - addressed in versions 2.2.16, 2.4.8, 2.6.2
wireshark (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.4.8-r0, 2.6.2-r0
wireshark - addressed in versions 2.6.2-1.fc27, 2.6.2-1.fc28
wireshark (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.4.8-r0, 2.6.2-r0
wireshark - addressed in versions 2.6.2-1.fc27, 2.6.2-1.fc28