CVE-2018-11359

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
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 RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/proto.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11359

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11359.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-23

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-25

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.6.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.6.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.6.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.6.1-1
debian debiansidfixed2.6.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.6.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.