CVE-2018-7420

wireshark: Pcapng file parser crash in pcapng.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 8, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the pcapng file parser in Wireshark. A remote network attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash Wireshark by tricking it into processing a crafted packet.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling