CVE-2018-9261

Published: Apr 4, 2018Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (5)

Products: Wireshark: Wireshark · Debian: Debian Linux

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Wireshark Wireshark	From 2.2.0 to 2.2.13
Wireshark Wireshark	From 2.4.0 to 2.4.5

Configuration B

3 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Debian Debian Linux	Version 7.0
Debian Debian Linux	Version 8.0
Debian Debian Linux	Version 9.0

Related CWEs

CWE-834

Excessive Iteration

The product performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.

References (10)

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66bc372716e04d6a8afdf6712583c9b5d11fee55

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-18.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471