In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wireshark | Wireshark | 2.4.0 (including) | 2.4.14 (including) |
| Wireshark | Wireshark | 2.6.0 (including) | 2.6.8 (including) |
| Wireshark | Wireshark | 3.0.0 (including) | 3.0.1 (including) |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | cosmic | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | disco | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Wireshark | Ubuntu | xenial | * |