CVE-2018-18226
High
CVE-2018-18226
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.
Exploit probability
3.2%
Published
October 12, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
11 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-18226
View original source
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105583
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041909
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15171
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e920ddc3cad2886ef07ca1a8e50e2a5c50986f7
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-48.html