Arbitrary Access Control Modification in Wireshark through 2.6.2

CVE-2018-14438 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

In Wireshark through 2.6.2, the create_app_running_mutex function in wsutil/file_util.c calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL, which allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.

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