CVE-2018-9261
High
CVE-2018-9261
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs.
Exploit probability
2.9%
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-2018-9261
View original source
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66bc372716e04d6a8afdf6712583c9b5d11fee55
- 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-2018-18.html