Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been 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 LDSS dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
2. An unspecified vulnerability in IEEE 1905.1a dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
3. An unspecified vulnerability in RTCP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
4. An unspecified vulnerability in LTP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
5. An unspecified vulnerability in DNS dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
6. An unspecified vulnerability in GSM A DTAP dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
7. An unspecified vulnerability in Q.931 dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
8. An unspecified vulnerability in IEEE 802.11 dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;
9. An unspecified vulnerability in RRC dissector can be exploited remotely via malformed packet trace file to cause denial of service;

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Technical details

Vulnerability (2), (3) and (6) affects only Wireshark 2.6.x

Original advisories

• wnpa-sec-2018-28

• wnpa-sec-2018-26
• wnpa-sec-2018-30
• wnpa-sec-2018-31
• wnpa-sec-2018-27
• wnpa-sec-2018-25
• wnpa-sec-2018-32
• wnpa-sec-2018-33
• wnpa-sec-2018-29

Related products

• Wireshark

CVE list

• CVE-2018-11354
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• CVE-2018-11355
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• CVE-2018-11356
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• CVE-2018-11357
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• CVE-2018-11358
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• CVE-2018-11359
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• CVE-2018-11360
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• CVE-2018-11361
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• CVE-2018-11362
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