| Name | CVE-2018-9261 |
| Description | In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs. |
| 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-1388-1, DSA-4217-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | stretch | 2.6.7-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 3.4.4-1 | 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 | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u11 | DLA-1388-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u14 | DSA-4217-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | stretch | 2.2.6+g32dac6a-2+deb9u3 | DSA-4217-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.4.6-1 |
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=66bc372716e04d6a8afdf6712583c9b5d11fee55
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-18.html