Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities -01 (Apr 2018) - Mac OS X
🗓️ 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-9257 | 4 Apr 201807:00 | – | alpinelinux | |
| CVE-2018-9258 | 4 Apr 201807:00 | – | alpinelinux | |
| Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-07438) | 4 Apr 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| Wireshark CQL Parser Infinite Loop Vulnerability | 4 Apr 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2018-9257 | 4 Apr 201807:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-9258 | 4 Apr 201807:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-9257 | 4 Apr 201807:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2018-9258 | 4 Apr 201807:00 | – | cvelist | |
| [SECURITY] [DLA 1388-1] wireshark security update | 28 May 201820:34 | – | debian | |
| CVE-2018-9257 | 4 Apr 201807:00 | – | debiancve |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| wireshark | www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22 |
| wireshark | www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-21 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.813069");
script_version("2025-09-12T05:38:45+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-9257", "CVE-2018-9258");
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 -01 (Apr 2018) - Mac OS X");
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 input validation errors in 'epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c' and
'epan/dissectors/packet-cql.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 on
Mac OS X.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Wireshark version 2.4.6 or later. Please see the references for more information.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-21");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-22");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/macosx/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:"2.4.0", test_version2:"2.4.5")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.4.6", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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12 Sep 2025 00:00Current
8.2High risk
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CVSS 25
CVSS 37.5
EPSS0.01807