Vulnerability CVE-2018-14342
Published: 2018-07-18   Modified: 2018-07-19

Description:
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the BGP protocol dissector could go into a large loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bgp.c by validating Path Attribute lengths.

Type:

CWE-834

 (Excessive Iteration)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Wireshark -> Wireshark 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104847
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041608
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13741
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=36af43dbb7673495948cd65d0346e8b9812b941c
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00045.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-34.html
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