Candidate: CVE-2018-14438
PublicDate: 2018-07-20 00:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14438
 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14921
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N [7.5 HIGH]


Patches_wireshark:
upstream_wireshark: needs-triage
precise/esm_wireshark: DNE
trusty_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1)
trusty/esm_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1)

xenial_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu16.04.1)

artful_wireshark: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1)

devel_wireshark: not-affected (2.6.3-1)