CVE-2018-18226

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041909

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105583

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-48.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e920ddc3cad2886ef07ca1a8e50e2a5c50986f7

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15171

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-10-12

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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