KLA11311 Multiple DoS vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Multiple serious vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An unspecified vulnerability in the Bluetooth AVDTP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
2. An unspecified vulnerability in the Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
3. An unspecified vulnerability in the Radiotap dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service.

Original advisories

wnpa-sec-2018-44

wnpa-sec-2018-45

wnpa-sec-2018-46

Related products

Wireshark

CVE list

CVE-2018-16058 warning

CVE-2018-16056 warning

CVE-2018-16057 warning

Solution

Update to the latest version

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Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• Wireshark 2.6.x earlier than 2.6.3Wireshark 2.4.x earlier than 2.4.9Wireshark 2.2.x earlier than 2.2.17