RHSA-2020:1047 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security and bug fix update

Loading…

Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 1, 2020

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for wireshark is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

Security Fix(es):

  • wireshark: Out-of-bounds read in packet-ldss.c (CVE-2018-11362)

  • wireshark: Multiple dissectors could crash (wnpa-sec-2018-36) (CVE-2018-14340)

  • wireshark: DICOM dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-39) (CVE-2018-14341)

  • wireshark: Bazaar dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-40) (CVE-2018-14368)

  • wireshark: SIGCOMP dissector crash in packet-sigcomp.c (CVE-2018-7418)

  • wireshark: Radiotap dissector crash (CVE-2018-16057)

  • wireshark: Infinite loop in the MMSE dissector (CVE-2018-19622)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:1047 — Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security and bug fix update | PulseLinux