Out-of-bounds Read Affecting wireshark package, versions <2.6.6-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-WIRESHARK-1563628
  • published8 Jan 2019
  • disclosed8 Jan 2019

Introduced: 8 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-5718  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 wireshark to version 2.6.6-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/charsets.c by adding a get_t61_string length check.