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Wireshark : CVE-2019-10898 : GSUP dissector infinite loop

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Wireshark : CVE-2019-10898 : GSUP dissector infinite loop

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/09/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/15/2019
Modified
04/15/2019

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the GSUP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_gsup.c by rejecting an invalid Information Element length.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-3_0_1

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