vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-24479: wireshark: Buffer Overflow via wsutil/to_str.c and format_fractional_part_nsecs results in Denial of Service

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 21, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A Buffer Overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the wsutil/to_str.c, and format_fractional_part_nsecs components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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