Bug 1102012 (CVE-2018-14438) - VUL-0: CVE-2018-14438: wireshark: create_app_running_mutex sets a NULL DACL
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2018-14438: wireshark: create_app_running_mutex sets a NULL DACL
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: CVE-2018-14438
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Windows 10
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Lingshan Zhu
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/211200/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3:SUSE:CVE-2018-14438:6.5:(AV:N/...
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Reported: 2018-07-20 08:31 UTC by Johannes Segitz
Modified: 2018-10-04 06:48 UTC (History)
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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description Johannes Segitz 2018-07-20 08:31:30 UTC 
CVE-2018-14438

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:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-14438
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14921
Comment 1 Andreas Stieger 2018-07-25 07:40:24 UTC 
Windows only