CVE-2018-11362 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2018-11362?

CVE-2018-11362 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 22 May 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LDSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by avoiding a buffer over-read upon encountering a missing '\0' character.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-11362?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2018-11362?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-11362 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-11362 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-11362, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11362, GHSA-phvv-9748-c5fx, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11362.