Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-11357 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the LTP dissector and other dissectors could consume excessive memory. This was addressed in epan/tvbuff.c by rejecting negative lengths.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1634.NASL description Several issues in wireshark, a tool that captures and analyzes packets off the wire, have been found by different people. These are basically issues with length checks or invalid memory access in different dissectors. This could result in infinite loops or crashes by malicious packets. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-01-16 plugin id 121193 published 2019-01-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121193 title Debian DLA-1634-1 : wireshark security update NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_WIRESHARK_2_6_1.NASL description The version of Wireshark installed on the remote MacOS/MacOSX host is 2.2.x prior to 2.2.15, 2.4.x prior to 2.4.7, or 2.6.x prior to 2.6.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110268 published 2018-05-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110268 title Wireshark 2.2.x < 2.2.15 / 2.4.x < 2.4.7 / 2.6.x < 2.6.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (MacOS) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-520.NASL description This update for wireshark fixes the following issues : Minor vulnerabilities that could be used to trigger dissector crashes or cause excessive memory use by making Wireshark read specially crafted packages from the network or capture files (boo#1094301) : - CVE-2018-11356: DNS dissector crash - CVE-2018-11357: Multiple dissectors could consume excessive memory - CVE-2018-11358: Q.931 dissector crash - CVE-2018-11359: The RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash - CVE-2018-11360: GSM A DTAP dissector crash - CVE-2018-11362: LDSS dissector crash This update to version 2.4.7 also contains bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.7.html last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-05-29 plugin id 110177 published 2018-05-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110177 title openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2018-520) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-399.NASL description This update for wireshark fixes the following issues : Minor vulnerabilities that could be used to trigger dissector crashes or cause excessive memory use by making Wireshark read specially crafted packages from the network or capture files (boo#1094301) : - CVE-2018-11356: DNS dissector crash - CVE-2018-11357: Multiple dissectors could consume excessive memory - CVE-2018-11358: Q.931 dissector crash - CVE-2018-11359: The RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash - CVE-2018-11360: GSM A DTAP dissector crash - CVE-2018-11362: LDSS dissector crash This update to version 2.4.7 also contains bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.7.html last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2019-03-27 plugin id 123176 published 2019-03-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123176 title openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2019-399) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-D1CFA444D2.NASL description New version 2.6.1, contains fixes for multiple CVEs. ---- Fixed undefined reference in tshark, corrected build flags usage Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-06-06 plugin id 110328 published 2018-06-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110328 title Fedora 27 : 1:wireshark (2018-d1cfa444d2) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-2891-2.NASL description This update for wireshark to version 2.4.9 fixes the following issues : Wireshark was updated to 2.4.9 (bsc#1094301, bsc#1106514). Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-16058: Bluetooth AVDTP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-44) CVE-2018-16056: Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-45) CVE-2018-16057: Radiotap dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-46) CVE-2018-11355: Fix RTCP dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14370: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-43, bsc#1101802) CVE-2018-14368: Bazaar dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-40, bsc#1101794) CVE-2018-11362: Fix LDSS dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-11361: Fix IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-11360: Fix GSM A DTAP dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14342: BGP dissector large loop (wnpa-sec-2018-34, bsc#1101777) CVE-2018-14343: ASN.1 BER dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-37, bsc#1101786) CVE-2018-14340: Multiple dissectors could crash (wnpa-sec-2018-36, bsc#1101804) CVE-2018-14341: DICOM dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-39, bsc#1101776) CVE-2018-11358: Fix Q.931 dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14344: ISMP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-35, bsc#1101788) CVE-2018-11359: Fix multiple dissectors crashs (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-11356: Fix DNS dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14339: MMSE dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-38, bsc#1101810) CVE-2018-11357: Fix multiple dissectors that could consume excessive memory (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14367: CoAP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-42, bsc#1101791) CVE-2018-11354: Fix IEEE 1905.1a dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14369: HTTP2 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-41, bsc#1101800) Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.9.html Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118294 published 2018-10-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118294 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:2891-2) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-3DFEE621AF.NASL description New version 2.6.1, contains fixes for multiple CVEs. ---- Fixed undefined reference in tshark, corrected build flags usage Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120367 published 2019-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120367 title Fedora 28 : 1:wireshark (2018-3dfee621af) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-2891-1.NASL description This update for wireshark to version 2.4.9 fixes the following issues : Wireshark was updated to 2.4.9 (bsc#1094301, bsc#1106514). Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-16058: Bluetooth AVDTP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-44) CVE-2018-16056: Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-45) CVE-2018-16057: Radiotap dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-46) CVE-2018-11355: Fix RTCP dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14370: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-43, bsc#1101802) CVE-2018-14368: Bazaar dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-40, bsc#1101794) CVE-2018-11362: Fix LDSS dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-11361: Fix IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-11360: Fix GSM A DTAP dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14342: BGP dissector large loop (wnpa-sec-2018-34, bsc#1101777) CVE-2018-14343: ASN.1 BER dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-37, bsc#1101786) CVE-2018-14340: Multiple dissectors could crash (wnpa-sec-2018-36, bsc#1101804) CVE-2018-14341: DICOM dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-39, bsc#1101776) CVE-2018-11358: Fix Q.931 dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14344: ISMP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-35, bsc#1101788) CVE-2018-11359: Fix multiple dissectors crashs (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-11356: Fix DNS dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14339: MMSE dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-38, bsc#1101810) CVE-2018-11357: Fix multiple dissectors that could consume excessive memory (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14367: CoAP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-42, bsc#1101791) CVE-2018-11354: Fix IEEE 1905.1a dissector crash (bsc#1094301). CVE-2018-14369: HTTP2 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-41, bsc#1101800) Further bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.9.html Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117821 published 2018-09-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117821 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:2891-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2020-0693-1.NASL description This update for wireshark and libmaxminddb fixes the following issues : Update wireshark to new major version 3.2.2 and introduce libmaxminddb for GeoIP support (bsc#1156288). New features include : Added support for 111 new protocols, including WireGuard, LoRaWAN, TPM 2.0, 802.11ax and QUIC Improved support for existing protocols, like HTTP/2 Improved analytics and usability functionalities Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2020-03-16 plugin id 134625 published 2020-03-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134625 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2020:0693-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1988-1.NASL description This update for wireshark fixes vulnerabilities that could be used to trigger dissector crashes or cause dissectors to go into large infinite loops by making Wireshark read specially crafted packages from the network or capture files (bsc#1094301). This includes : - CVE-2018-11356: DNS dissector crash - CVE-2018-11357: Multiple dissectors could consume excessive memory - CVE-2018-11358: Q.931 dissector crash - CVE-2018-11359: The RRC dissector and other dissectors could crash - CVE-2018-11360: GSM A DTAP dissector crash - CVE-2018-11362: LDSS dissector crash Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-21 modified 2019-01-02 plugin id 120052 published 2019-01-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120052 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:1988-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-362.NASL description This update for wireshark and libmaxminddb fixes the following issues : Update wireshark to new major version 3.2.2 and introduce libmaxminddb for GeoIP support (bsc#1156288). New features include : - Added support for 111 new protocols, including WireGuard, LoRaWAN, TPM 2.0, 802.11ax and QUIC - Improved support for existing protocols, like HTTP/2 - Improved analytics and usability functionalities This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-03-26 modified 2020-03-20 plugin id 134755 published 2020-03-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134755 title openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2020-362) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-2412-1.NASL description This update for wireshark fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - bsc#1094301: Wireshark security update to 2.6.1, 2.4.7, 2.2.15 - CVE-2018-14339: MMSE dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-38, bsc#1101810) - CVE-2018-14341: DICOM dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-39, bsc#1101776) - CVE-2018-14343: ASN.1 BER dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-37, bsc#1101786) - CVE-2018-14344: ISMP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-35, bsc#1101788) - CVE-2018-14340: Multiple dissectors could crash (wnpa-sec-2018-36, bsc#1101804) - CVE-2018-14342: BGP dissector large loop (wnpa-sec-2018-34, bsc#1101777) - CVE-2018-14370: IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-43, bsc#1101802) - CVE-2018-14369: HTTP2 dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-41, bsc#1101800) - CVE-2018-14367: CoAP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2018-42, bsc#1101791) - CVE-2018-14368: Bazaar dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-40, bsc#1101794) - CVE-2018-11355: Fix RTCP dissector crash (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11362: Fix LDSS dissector crash (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11361: Fix IEEE 802.11 dissector crash (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11360: Fix GSM A DTAP dissector crash (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11358: Fix Q.931 dissector crash (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11359: Fix multiple dissectors crashs (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11356: Fix DNS dissector crash (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11357: Fix multiple dissectors that could consume excessive memory (bsc#1094301). - CVE-2018-11354: Fix IEEE 1905.1a dissector crash (bsc#1094301). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 112015 published 2018-08-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/112015 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:2412-1) NASL family Windows NASL id WIRESHARK_2_6_1.NASL description The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 2.2.x prior to 2.2.15, 2.4.x prior to 2.4.6, or 2.6.x prior to 2.6.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110269 published 2018-05-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110269 title Wireshark 2.2.x < 2.2.15 / 2.4.x < 2.4.7 / 2.6.x < 2.6.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
References
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-28.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14678
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104308
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041036
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ab8a33ef083b9732c89117747a83a905a676faf6