Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.4.0,2.4.12)[2.6.0,2.6.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318110
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed8 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-5719  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.4.12, 2.6.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the ISAKMP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-isakmp.c by properly handling the case of a missing decryption data block.

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