CVE-2018-14368

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the Bazaar protocol dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-bzr.c by properly handling items that are too long.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.2.0 through 2.2.15; from 2.4.0 through 2.4.7; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104847
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041608
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14841
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6c44312f465014eb409d766a9828b7f101f6251c
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00045.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-40.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104847
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041608
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14841
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6c44312f465014eb409d766a9828b7f101f6251c

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