CVE-2018-5336
High
CVE-2018-5336
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.
Exploit probability
2.7%
Published
January 11, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
47 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-5336
View original source
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102504
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html