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CVE-2018-7337

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% 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, the DOCSIS protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in plugins/docsis/packet-docsis.c by removing the recursive algorithm that had been used for concatenated PDUs.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.4

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103164
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14446
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=511a8b0b546d25413e289dc5a7d3a455a33994c2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-08.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103164
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14446
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=511a8b0b546d25413e289dc5a7d3a455a33994c2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-08.html

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