KLA11337 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 MS-WSP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
2. An unspecified vulnerability in the Steam IHS Discovery dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
3. An unspecified vulnerability in the CoAP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
4. An unspecified vulnerability in the OpcUa dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;

Original advisories

wnpa-sec-2018-47

wnpa-sec-2018-48

wnpa-sec-2018-49

wnpa-sec-2018-50

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

Wireshark

CVE list

CVE-2018-18227 warning

CVE-2018-18226 critical

CVE-2018-18225 warning

CVE-2018-12086 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 2.6.4Wireshark 2.4.x earlier than 2.4.10