Vulnerability CVE-2018-9262
Published: 2018-04-04

Description:
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.

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=14469
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f05c3b91f9571210b86576ee6284e71a3306109d
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-19.html
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