Vulnerability: Crash in DOCSIS Protocol Dissector in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4

Vulnerability: Crash in DOCSIS Protocol Dissector in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4

CVE-2018-7337 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4, the DOCSIS protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in plugins/docsis/packet-docsis.c by removing the recursive algorithm that had been used for concatenated PDUs.

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