| Name | CVE-2018-19622 |
| Description | In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c by preventing length overflows. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1634-1, DSA-4359-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u14 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2.6.7-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 2.6.8-1.1 | fixed | |
| sid | 2.6.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.6.5-1 | medium | ||
| wireshark | source | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u16 | medium | DLA-1634-1 | |
| wireshark | source | stretch | 2.6.5-1~deb9u1 | medium | DSA-4359-1 |
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15250
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=3b7555d32d11862f0e500ec466ad6bfe54190076
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-54.html