CVE-2018-11362

critical

Published — · Modified —

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 LDSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by avoiding a buffer over-read upon encountering a missing '\0' character.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11362

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11362.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

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.