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CVE-2018-18226 Details

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html CVE
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15171 CVEIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e920ddc3cad2886ef07ca1a8e50e2a5c50986f7 CVE
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4359 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-48.html CVEVendor Advisory

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-772Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wireshark wireshark
>= 2.6.0, <= 2.6.3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
9.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

11 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-18226
NVD Published Date:
Oct 12, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2018-18226 Details - Not Deferred