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CVE-2018-5335

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the WCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c by validating the available buffer length.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.2.0 through 2.2.11; from 2.4.0 through 2.4.3

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102500
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14251
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=086b87376b988c555484349aa115d6e08ac6db07
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-04.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102500
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14251
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=086b87376b988c555484349aa115d6e08ac6db07
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-04.html

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