SB2018031941 - Memory corruption in wireshark (Alpine package)
Published: March 19, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018031941
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7420)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in in wiretap/pcapng.c due to when checking for sysdig event blocks. A remote attacker can cause the pcapng file parser to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.