Vulnerability: VLAN Dissector Crash in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13

Vulnerability: VLAN Dissector Crash in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13

CVE-2018-9262 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the VLAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-vlan.c by limiting VLAN tag nesting to restrict the recursion depth.

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