CVE-2018-16056

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.2, 2.4.0 to 2.4.8, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.16, the Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btatt.c by verifying that a dissector for a specific UUID exists.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.2.0 through 2.2.16; from 2.4.0 through 2.4.8; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105174
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041609
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14994
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f98fbce64cb230e94a2cafc410a3cedad657b485
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4315
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-45.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105174
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041609
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14994
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f98fbce64cb230e94a2cafc410a3cedad657b485

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