01 Record

CVE-2018-11359

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/proto.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/proto.c by avoiding a NULL pointer dereference.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 2.82% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Ranks above 85.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2018-05-22 21:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 08:10Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-05-21

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase
CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

64f0517c12fdf948916ce30b73ed38134bce2f099bd2e85cb30ccd18d2df7de7

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

debiandebian_linuxNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

wiresharkwiresharkNot specified—

06 References

www.securityfocus.com104308http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104308vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
bugs.wireshark.orghttps://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14703x_refsource_CONFIRM
lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190115 [SECURITY] [DLA 1634-1] wireshark security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
code.wireshark.orghttps://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=beaebe91b14564fb9f86f0726bab09927872721bx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.wireshark.orghttps://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-33.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.securitytracker.com1041036http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041036vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0362http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

01 Record index

CVE-2018-11359

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References

02 Records

CVE-2018-11359

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References