Missing Initialization of Resource Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.6.0,2.6.13)[3.0.0,3.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318075
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed5 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19553  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-909  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.6.13, 3.0.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Initialization of Resource. In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.6 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.12, the CMS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/asn1/cms/packet-cms-template.c by ensuring that an object identifier is set to NULL after a ContentInfo dissection.

CVSS Scores

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