CVE-2018-9257 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the CQL dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cql.c by checking for a nonzero number of columns.

Published: 2018-04-04

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-20851	In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the CQL dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cql.c by checking for a nonzero number of columns.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00355.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14530
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d7a9501b0439a5dbf24016a95b4896170d789dc2
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9257
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9257
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22.html

History

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Subscriptions

Wireshark Wireshark

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-04-04T07:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T17:58:44.267Z

Reserved: 2018-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-9257

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-04T07:29:00.503

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:15:13.740

Link: CVE-2018-9257

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-03-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-9257 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-835

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