DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7420

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7420 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

In Wireshark 2.2.0 to 2.2.12 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the pcapng file parser could crash. This was addressed in wiretap/pcapng.c by adding a block-size check for sysdig event blocks.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	wireshark	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Feb 23, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7420 advisory

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