Vulnerability CVE-2018-18226
Published: 2018-10-12

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.

Type:

CWE-772

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/105583
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041909
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15171
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=6e920ddc3cad2886ef07ca1a8e50e2a5c50986f7
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-48.html
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