High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the IPMI dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ipmi-picmg.c by adding support for crafted packets that lack an IPMI header.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-7417
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the IPMI dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ipmi-picmg.c by adding support for crafted packets that lack an IPMI header.
osv:CVE-2018-7417
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:24.754308296Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00018.html",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html",
"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-12.html",
"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14409"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-02-23T22:29:01.513+00:00"
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