CVE-2018-5336

wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 11, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE not specified