PT-2018-12514 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2018-07-20 · Updated 2018-09-17 · CVE-2018-14438

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions prior to 2.6.3

Description The issue arises from the create app running mutex function in wsutil/file util.c, which calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL. This allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions prior to 2.6.3, update to version 2.6.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2268

CVE-2018-14438

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Wireshark

References · 13

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16056 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14438 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16058 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14438 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14438 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-14438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-2268 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16057 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2018-14438 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104876 · Note