CVE-2018-7323

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-834

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, epan/dissectors/packet-wccp.c had a large loop that was addressed by ensuring that a calculated length was monotonically increasing.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.2.0 through 2.2.12; from 2.4.0 through 2.4.4

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103158
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14412
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f9199ea8cff56c6704e9828c3d80360b27c4565
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5d45b69b590cabc5127282d1ade3bca1598e5f5c
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-06.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103158
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14412
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f9199ea8cff56c6704e9828c3d80360b27c4565
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5d45b69b590cabc5127282d1ade3bca1598e5f5c
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html

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