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wireshark — security advisory
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LTP dissector and other dissectors could consume excessive memory. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff.c by rejecting negative lengths.
- Products
- wireshark
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.6.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11357
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LTP dissector and other dissectors could consume excessive memory. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff.c by rejecting negative lengths.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11357
wireshark
Fixed versions: 2.6.1-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 2.6.1-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 2.6.1-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-05-22T21:29:00.347+00:00"
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