High
Security advisory
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.9, the MS-WSP protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c by properly handling NULL return values.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-18227
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.9, the MS-WSP protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mswsp.c by properly handling NULL return values.
osv:CVE-2018-18227
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15119",
"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-47.html"
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