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CVE-2018-6836

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.7%

Critical (9.8) in wireshark wireshark. EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The netmonrec_comment_destroy function in wiretap/netmon.c in Wireshark through 2.4.4 performs a free operation on an uninitialized memory address, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-763
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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