High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, the IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c via bounds checking that prevents a buffer over-read.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14370
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, the IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c via bounds checking that prevents a buffer over-read.
osv:CVE-2018-14370
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:44.194592677Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b1446124eebc3ea5591d18e719c2a5cff3630638",
"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-43.html",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-07-19T02:29:00.737+00:00"
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