NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting wireshark package, versions [2.4.0,2.4.11)[2.6.0,2.6.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318173
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed29 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19624  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 2.4.11, 2.6.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the PVFS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-pvfs2.c by preventing a NULL pointer dereference.

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