CVE-2018-5336

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% 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 JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

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/102504
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0
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-2018-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102504
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.html

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