In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.2, 2.4.0 to 2.4.8, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.16, the Radiotap dissector could crash. This was addressed in…

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.2, 2.4.0 to 2.4.8, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.16, the Radiotap dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211-radiotap-iter.c by validating iterator operations.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• DSA-4315 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 105174 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1041609 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15022 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20190115 [SECURITY] [DLA 1634-1] wireshark security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-46.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0362 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bbf46eb46ae38392af8e6cd288795f0def50a621 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 10:10 UTC.