CVE-2018-9262

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-03-02
CWE:
CWE-121
Bugzilla:
1565743: CVE-2018-9262 wireshark: VLAN dissector crash in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.

Find out more about CVE-2018-9262 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Not affected

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