CVE-2018-19625 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2018-19625?

CVE-2018-19625 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Nov 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff_composite.c by preventing a heap-based buffer over-read.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-19625?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2018-19625?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2018-19625 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-19625 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19625, GHSA-qjwp-fx53-r42v, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19625.