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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (4 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
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• [debian-lts-announce] 20180126 [SECURITY] [DLA 1258-1] wireshark security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 102504 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-4101 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 05:33 UTC.