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CVE-2018-14370 (GCVE-0-2018-14370)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-19 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:29
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Summary
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, the IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c via bounds checking that prevents a buffer over-read.
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
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-07-18 00:00
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