| Name | CVE-2018-7420 |
| Description | In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the pcapng file parser could crash. This was addressed in wiretap/pcapng.c by adding a block-size check for sysdig event blocks. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1353-1, DLA-1634-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.6.20-0+deb10u9~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u9 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.4.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14403
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=129e41f9f63885ad8224ef413c2860788fb9e849
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-11.html