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wireshark: Steam IHS Discovery dissector memory leak

Published Oct 12, 2018

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, the Steam IHS Discovery dissector could consume system memory. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-steam-ihs-discovery.c by changing the memory-management approach.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (13)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 12, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Oct 10, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Oct 10, 2018
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 12, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2018-9963