Wireshark Steam IHS Discovery/CoAP Dissector DoS Vulnerabilities - Windows
🗓️ 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 52 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: Vyatta 5600 vRouter Software Patches - Release 1801-v | 18 Apr 201916:40 | – | ibm | |
| Security fix for the ALT Linux 9 package wireshark version 2.6.4-alt1 | 13 Oct 201800:00 | – | altlinux | |
| CVE-2018-18225 | 12 Oct 201805:00 | – | alpinelinux | |
| CVE-2018-18226 | 12 Oct 201805:00 | – | alpinelinux | |
| [ASA-201810-9] wireshark-cli: multiple issues | 12 Oct 201800:00 | – | archlinux | |
| The vulnerability of CoAP decoders in Wireshark’s computer network traffic analyzer allows a hacker to cause a service failure. | 6 Mar 201900:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| A vulnerability in the Wireshark traffic analyzer, related to a resource management error, can lead to a failure in service delivery. | 4 Apr 201900:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-18506) | 12 Oct 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| Wireshark Memory Leak Vulnerability | 12 Oct 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2018-18225 | 12 Oct 201805:00 | – | cve |
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# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.814133");
script_version("2025-09-17T05:39:26+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-18225", "CVE-2018-18226");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-17 05:39:26 +0000 (Wed, 17 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:"2020-03-20 01:15:00 +0000 (Fri, 20 Mar 2020)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-10-15 12:24:51 +0530 (Mon, 15 Oct 2018)");
script_name("Wireshark Steam IHS Discovery/CoAP Dissector DoS Vulnerabilities - 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:"The flaws are due to insufficient validation
of user-supplied input processed by Steam In-Home Streaming (IHS) Discovery
and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) dissector components.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attackers
to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 2.6.0 to 2.6.3 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Wireshark 2.6.4 or later. Please see the references for more information.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-48.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-49.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=59009");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=59008");
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("Denial of Service");
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:"2.6.0", test_version2:"2.6.3")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.6.4", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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17 Sep 2025 00:00Current
7.2High risk
Vulners AI Score7.2
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