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Wireshark : CVE-2019-12295 : Wireshark dissection engine crash

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Wireshark : CVE-2019-12295 : Wireshark dissection engine crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/23/2019
Created
05/28/2019
Added
05/27/2019
Modified
05/29/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_4_15
  • wireshark-upgrade-2_6_9
  • wireshark-upgrade-3_0_2

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