CVE-2018-9260
High
CVE-2018-9260
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the IEEE 802.15.4 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c by ensuring that an allocation step occurs.
Exploit probability
2.5%
Published
April 4, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
59 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-9260
View original source
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the IEEE 802.15.4 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c by ensuring that an allocation step occurs.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14468
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=14d6f717d8ea27688af48532edb1d29f502ea8f0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-17.html