NetSight
high7.5

CVE-2018-11356

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the DNS dissector could crash.

Impact

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the DNS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dns.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference for an empty name in an SRV record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
WiresharkWireshark
from 2.2.0 through 2.2.14
from 2.4.0 through 2.4.6
Version 2.6.0
DebianDebian Linux
Version 8.0

Weakness classification

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