Wireshark vulnerabilities CVE-2018-16056, CVE-2018-16057, and CVE-2018-16058

F5 Product Development has assigned ID 743743 (BIG-IP) to this vulnerability.

To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about releases or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning.

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If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in theFixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists.

Mitigation

To mitigate this vulnerability, you can use the** tcpdump** utility to capture network traffic on the BIG-IP system, then download the packet captures and perform analysis with Wireshark on another device.

• K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning
• K41942608: Overview of Security Advisory articles
• K4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy
• K4918: Overview of the F5 critical issue hotfix policy
• K167: Downloading software and firmware from F5
• K9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products
• K9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents
• K21232150: Considerations for upgrading BIG-IQ or F5 iWorkflow systems