UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14438
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Summary:
Details: In Wireshark through 2.6.2, the create_app_running_mutex function in wsutil/file_util.c calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL, which allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14438, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14921, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14438
Affected packages
Package
Name: wireshark
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~ubuntu14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1
Affected versions
1.10.2-1
1.10.3-1
1.10.5-1ubuntu1
1.10.5-2
1.10.6-1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
