| Name | CVE-2018-9257 |
| Description | In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the CQL dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cql.c by checking for a nonzero number of columns. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.2.2-1 | fixed |
| sid | 4.2.2-1.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| wireshark | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.4.6-1 | low | | |
Notes
[jessie] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14530
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=d7a9501b0439a5dbf24016a95b4896170d789dc2
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22.html