vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2019-5718): 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 | Aug 19, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 8, 2019
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025
Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/charsets.c by adding a get_t61_string length check.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2019-5718
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-5718
- CWE-125
- DEBIAN-DSA-4416
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=cd09cb5cfb673beca3cce20b1d6a9bc67a134ae1
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5718
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-03.html
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