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CVE-2018-7331

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% 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-835

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c had an infinite loop that was addressed by validating a length.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 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=14444
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=157712b2f5f89b19ef2497ea89c5938eb29529da
• 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=14444
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=157712b2f5f89b19ef2497ea89c5938eb29529da
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-06.html

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