CVE-2018-11362
High
CVE-2018-11362
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LDSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by avoiding a buffer over-read upon encountering a missing '\0' character.
Exploit probability
3.1%
Published
May 22, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
68 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-11362
View original source
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LDSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by avoiding a buffer over-read upon encountering a missing '\0' character.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104308
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041036
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14615
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f177008b04a530640de835ca878892e58b826d58
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-25.html