What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-9264

• 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: yes
• Published: 2018-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the ADB dissector could crash with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-adb.c by checking for a length inconsistency.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.2.0 through 2.2.13; from 2.4.0 through 2.4.5

References

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14460
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0290a62be0fca8da9bb190f59dc1fe26c1d65024
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-16.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14460
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0290a62be0fca8da9bb190f59dc1fe26c1d65024
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4217
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-16.html

Get alerted when CVE-2018-9264 or the next vulnerability affects your stack