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CVE-2018-11361 (GCVE-0-2018-11361)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-22 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:10
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Summary
In Wireshark 2.6.0, the IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/dot11decrypt.c by avoiding a buffer overflow during FTE processing in Dot11DecryptTDLSDeriveKey.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2018-05-22 00:00
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