Out-of-bounds Read 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
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318400
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed8 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-5718  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

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