CVE-2018-7419

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
Weakness: CWE-665

Description

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the NBAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/asn1/nbap/nbap.cnf by ensuring DCH ID initialization.

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/103159
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14443
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bebd3a1f50b0a27738d8d3da5b33c1b392eb7273
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-2018-14.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103159
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14443
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bebd3a1f50b0a27738d8d3da5b33c1b392eb7273
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-2018-14.html

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