vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2019-16319): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 15, 2019 | Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 15, 2019
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jun 26, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/epan/gryphon/packet-gryphon.c by checking for a message length of zero.
Solution
no-fix-ubuntu-package
References
- CVE-2019-16319
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-16319
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16020
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=02ddd49885c6a09e936a76aceb726ed06539704a
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16319
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-21.html
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