Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Apr 2018) - Windows

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.813066");
  script_version("2025-09-12T05:38:45+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-9274", "CVE-2018-9272", "CVE-2018-9273", "CVE-2018-9270",
                "CVE-2018-9271", "CVE-2018-9268", "CVE-2018-9269", "CVE-2018-9267",
                "CVE-2018-9265", "CVE-2018-9266", "CVE-2018-9263", "CVE-2018-9264",
                "CVE-2018-9262", "CVE-2018-9261", "CVE-2018-9259", "CVE-2018-9260",
                "CVE-2018-9256");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-12 05:38:45 +0000 (Fri, 12 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-04-05 16:18:35 +0530 (Thu, 05 Apr 2018)");
  script_name("Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Apr 2018) - Windows");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws are due to:

  - Multiple memory leak errors in 'ui/failure_message.c', 'epan/dissectors/packet-h223.c',
    'epan/dissectors/packet-pcp.c', 'epan/oids.c', 'epan/dissectors/packet-multipart.c',
    'epan/dissectors/packet-smb2.c', 'epan/dissectors/packet-lapd.c',
    'epan/dissectors/packet-isup.c', 'epan/dissectors/packet-tn3270.c',
    'epan/dissectors/packet-kerberos.c', 'epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c',
    'epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c', 'epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c' and
    'epan/dissectors/packet-lwapp.c' scripts.

  - Multiple heap-based buffer overflow errors in 'epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c'
    and 'epan/dissectors/packet-adb.c' scripts.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will make Wireshark
  crash by injecting malformed packets.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, 2.2.0 to 2.2.13 on Windows.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Wireshark version 2.4.6, 2.2.14 or later. Please see the references for more information.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-15");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-16");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-17");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-18");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-19");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-23");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-20");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("General");
  script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_win.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/windows/detected");
  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];

if(version_in_range(version:vers, test_version:"2.2.0", test_version2:"2.2.13")) {
  fix = "2.2.14";
}

else if(version_in_range(version:vers, test_version:"2.4.0", test_version2:"2.4.5")){
  fix = "2.4.6";
}

if(fix) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:fix, install_path:path);
  security_message(port:0, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);