CVE-2018-11357
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
9.5
Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LTP dissector and other dissectors could consume excessive memory. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff.c by rejecting negative lengths.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11357
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11357.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-23
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-25
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2.6.1-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.6.1-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.6.1-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.6.1-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.6.1-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.6.1-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.