CVE-2018-19622
High
CVE-2018-19622
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c by preventing length overflows.
Exploit probability
3.2%
Published
November 29, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
46 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-19622
View original source
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c by preventing length overflows.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106051
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15250
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3b7555d32d11862f0e500ec466ad6bfe54190076
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-54.html