NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.6.7-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.62% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144629
- published 28 Feb 2019
- disclosed 28 Feb 2019
Introduced: 28 Feb 2019
CVE-2019-9214 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.6.7-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 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the RPCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c by avoiding an attempted dereference of a NULL conversation.
References
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9214
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9214
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15536
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=c557bb0910be271e49563756411a690a1bc53ce5
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107203
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-9214
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-08.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c557bb0910be271e49563756411a690a1bc53ce5