Use After Free Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.6.6-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.15% (51st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-WIRESHARK-3144800
- published 8 Jan 2019
- disclosed 8 Jan 2019
Introduced: 8 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-5721 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.17
wireshark
to version 2.6.6-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 2.4.11, the ENIP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-enip.c by changing the memory-management approach so that a use-after-free is avoided.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5721
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5721
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14470
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=1c66174ec7aa19e2ddc79178cf59f15a654fc4fe
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-05.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1c66174ec7aa19e2ddc79178cf59f15a654fc4fe