NetSight
high7.5

CVE-2018-5336

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.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
WiresharkWireshark
from 2.2.0 through 2.2.11
from 2.4.0 through 2.4.3
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification

References