CVE-2018-18226 (GCVE-0-2018-18226)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-12 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:01
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Summary
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.
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
2018-10-12 00:00
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