Infinite Loop Vulnerability in Wireshark CQL Dissector (Versions 2.4.0 to 2.4.5)

CVE-2018-9257 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the CQL dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-cql.c by checking for a nonzero number of columns.

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