CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-19622

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Nov 29, 2018 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
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 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c by preventing length overflows.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Wireshark Wireshark 2.4.0 (including) 2.4.10 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.4 (including)
Wireshark Ubuntu bionic *
Wireshark Ubuntu cosmic *
Wireshark Ubuntu trusty *
Wireshark Ubuntu upstream *
Wireshark Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat wireshark-0:1.10.14-24.el7 *

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