Vulnerability CVE-2018-9258
Published: 2018-04-04

Description:
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the TCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c by preserving valid data sources.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wireshark -> Wireshark 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14472
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=2d4695de1477df60b0188fd581c0c279db601978
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-21.html
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