High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 4, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-9259
CVE-2018-9259
Description
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the MP4 dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c by restricting the box recursion depth.
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Affected products
8- osv-coords7 versionspkg: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%20SP3pkg: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%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 2.2.14-48.24.1+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.14-48.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.14-40.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.14-48.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.14-40.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.14-48.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.14-40.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.14-48.24.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue Tracking
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-15.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- code.wireshark.org/review/gitwebnvd
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