CVE-2018-7336 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2018-7336?

CVE-2018-7336 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Feb 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, the FCP protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-fcp.c by checking for a NULL pointer.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7336?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2018-7336?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-7336 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7336 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-2018-7336, GHSA-qj6w-fmw8-346j, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7336.