High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-5336
CVE-2018-5336
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.
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Affected products
14- osv-coords13 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/wireshark&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 3.4.8-1.2+ 12 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.8-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-40.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-40.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-40.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.12-48.18.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- www.securityfocus.com/bid/102504nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00032.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4101nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- code.wireshark.org/review/gitwebnvd
- code.wireshark.org/review/gitwebnvd
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