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CVE-2018-9274

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% 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, ui/failure_message.c has a memory leak.

Affected products

• 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=14489
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=211845aba4794720ae265c782cdffddae54a3e7a
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f38e895dfc0d97bce64f73ce99df706911d9aa07
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14489
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=211845aba4794720ae265c782cdffddae54a3e7a
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f38e895dfc0d97bce64f73ce99df706911d9aa07
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html

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