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CVE-2018-9262 Detail

Current Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.


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Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  7.5 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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Hyperlink Resource
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14469 Exploit  Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f05c3b91f9571210b86576ee6284e71a3306109d Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-19.html Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-9262
NVD Published Date:
04/04/2018
NVD Last Modified:
02/27/2019
Source:
MITRE