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Red Hat: CVE-2019-5718: wireshark: out-of-bounds read in get_t61_string() in epan/charsets.c

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2019-5718: wireshark: out-of-bounds read in get_t61_string() in epan/charsets.c
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2019-01-08T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2019, 5718, wireshark, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 4

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jan 8, 2019

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 9, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2019-5718

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