vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2019-5717): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 8, 2019 | Nov 19, 2024 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 8, 2019
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the P_MUL dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-p_mul.c by rejecting the invalid sequence number of zero.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2019-5717
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-5717
- CWE-20
- DEBIAN-DSA-4416
- EUVD-EUVD-2019-15291
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15337
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=bf9272a92f3df1e4ccfaad434e123222ae5313f7
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-15291
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5717
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-02.html
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