Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting wireshark package, versions <3.0.4-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.19% (57th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144611
- published 15 Sep 2019
- disclosed 15 Sep 2019
Introduced: 15 Sep 2019
CVE-2019-16319 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 3.0.4-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark
package and not the wireshark
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.17
relevant fixed versions and status.
In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/epan/gryphon/packet-gryphon.c by checking for a message length of zero.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16319
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16319
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16020
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=02ddd49885c6a09e936a76aceb726ed06539704a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-16319
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-21.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=02ddd49885c6a09e936a76aceb726ed06539704a