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CVE-2018-9257

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the CQL dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cql.c by checking for a nonzero number of columns.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.5

References

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14530
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d7a9501b0439a5dbf24016a95b4896170d789dc2
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14530
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d7a9501b0439a5dbf24016a95b4896170d789dc2
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22.html

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