CVE-2018-11357

NameCVE-2018-11357
DescriptionIn Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LTP dissector and other dissectors could consume excessive memory. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff.c by rejecting negative lengths.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1634-1, ELA-75-1
Debian Bugs900708

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wireshark (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19fixed
stretch (security)2.6.20-0+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.6.20-0+deb10u9~deb9u1fixed
buster, buster (lts)2.6.20-0+deb10u9fixed
buster (security)2.6.20-0+deb10u8fixed
bullseye3.4.10-0+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)3.4.16-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm4.0.17-0+deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)4.0.11-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie4.4.2-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wiresharksourcewheezy1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u13ELA-75-1
wiresharksourcejessie1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u16DLA-1634-1
wiresharksource(unstable)2.6.1-1900708

Notes

[wheezy] - wireshark <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14678
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=ab8a33ef083b9732c89117747a83a905a676faf6
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-28.html

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