CVE-2018-5336

high

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102504

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-01-11

Updated: 2019-03-12

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH