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CVE-2018-9268
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-772
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, epan/dissectors/packet-smb2.c has a memory leak.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
- 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=14483
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c69d710d2bf39fe633800db65efddf55701131b6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14483
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c69d710d2bf39fe633800db65efddf55701131b6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00019.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html
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