CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-18227

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 12, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.9, the MS-WSP protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c by properly handling NULL return values.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Wireshark Wireshark 2.4.0 (including) 2.4.9 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.3 (including)
Wireshark Ubuntu bionic *
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Wireshark Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Wireshark Ubuntu upstream *
Wireshark Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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