| Name | CVE-2018-14340 |
| 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, dissectors that support zlib decompression could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff_zlib.c by rejecting negative lengths to avoid a buffer over-read. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1451-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 4.4.0-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 4.4.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u15 | DLA-1451-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.6.2-1 |
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14675
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=672d882a53f96730e4ef1e5b1639c585823b0df8
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-36.html