CVE-2018-5334: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash. This was addressed in wiretap/vwr.c by correcting the signature timestamp bounds checks.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: from 2.2.0, up to and including 2.2.11; from 2.4.0, up to and including 2.4.3

Published 2018-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.