CVE-2018-7335

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: 2018-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c by rejecting lengths that are too small.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
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/103165
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14442
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2901dcf45c9f1b07abfbf2a0b0cd654371d72a4
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-05.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103165
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14442
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2901dcf45c9f1b07abfbf2a0b0cd654371d72a4
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-05.html

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