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Ubuntu: USN-4133-1 (CVE-2019-12295): Wireshark vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4133-1 (CVE-2019-12295): Wireshark vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/23/2019
Created
03/05/2020
Added
09/17/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwireshark-data
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwireshark11
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwiretap8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwscodecs2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwsutil9
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tshark
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-gtk
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-qt

References

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