| Name | CVE-2018-9274 |
| Description | In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, ui/failure_message.c has a memory leak. |
| 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) |
| 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 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u18 | fixed | |
| stretch | 2.6.5-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.7-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 2.6.7-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 2.6.8-1 | 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) | 2.4.6-1 | medium | ||
| wireshark | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
| wireshark | source | stretch | (not affected) | |||
| wireshark | source | wheezy | (not affected) |
[stretch] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[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=14489
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=211845aba4794720ae265c782cdffddae54a3e7a
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f38e895dfc0d97bce64f73ce99df706911d9aa07
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html