vulnerability

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
May 23, 2019
Added
Sep 17, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libwireshark-dataubuntu-upgrade-libwireshark11ubuntu-upgrade-libwiretap8ubuntu-upgrade-libwscodecs2ubuntu-upgrade-libwsutil9ubuntu-upgrade-tsharkubuntu-upgrade-wiresharkubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-commonubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-gtkubuntu-upgrade-wireshark-qt
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