High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 2.6.0, the RTCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rtcp.c by avoiding a buffer overflow for packet status chunks.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11355
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.6.0, the RTCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rtcp.c by avoiding a buffer overflow for packet status chunks.
osv:CVE-2018-11355
Complete source record
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