The MRDISC dissector could crash (CVE-2017-17997).
The IxVeriWave file parser could crash (CVE-2018-5334).
The WCP dissector could crash (CVE-2018-5335).
Multiple dissectors could crash (CVE-2018-5336).
Prior to this release dumpcap enabled the Linux kernelâs BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpfjitenable sysctl. This could make systems more vulnerable to Spectre variant 1 and this feature has been removed (CVE-2017-5753).