Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting wireshark package, versions <3.0.1-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.23% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144756
- published 24 Jul 2019
- disclosed 9 Apr 2019
Introduced: 9 Apr 2019
CVE-2019-10898 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 3.0.1-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, the GSUP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_gsup.c by rejecting an invalid Information Element length.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-10898
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R/
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15585
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f80b7d1b279fb6c13f640019a1bbc42b18bf7469
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107836
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-12.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f80b7d1b279fb6c13f640019a1bbc42b18bf7469
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R/