Improper input validation in Wireshark - CVE-2018-16056

Vulnerability identifier: #VU14579

CSH Severity: Low

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-2018-16056

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to the epan/dissectors/packet-btatt.c source code file of the affected software does not verify that a dissector for a specific universally unique identifier (UUID) exists. A remote attacker can inject a malformed packet into a network, to be processed by the affected application, or trick the victim into opening a malicious packet trace file and cause the Bluetooth ATT dissector component to crash.

Wireshark
Debian Linux
Opensuse
openEuler
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
wireshark-debuginfo
wireshark-debugsource
wireshark-devel
wireshark-help

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 2.6.3, 2.4.9, 2.2.17.

Wireshark - addressed in versions 2.2.17, 2.4.9, 2.6.3
wireshark (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.4.9-r0, 2.6.3-r0
wireshark - update to 2.6.2-11
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 2.6.2-11
wireshark-debugsource - update to 2.6.2-11
wireshark-devel - update to 2.6.2-11
wireshark-help - update to 2.6.2-11
wireshark - addressed in versions 2.6.4-1.fc28, 2.6.4-1.fc29

• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-45.html

• Denial of service vulnerabilities in Wireshark
• OpenSUSE Linux update for wireshark
• OpenSUSE Linux update for wireshark
• Debian update for wireshark
• OpenSUSE Linux update for wireshark
• Improper input validation in wireshark (Alpine package)
• openEuler 20.03 LTS update for wireshark
• Fedora 29 update for wireshark
• Fedora 28 update for wireshark