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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=02ddd49885c6a09e936a76aceb726ed06539704a
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-21.html
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16020
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0070
EPSS Percentile
72.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-835
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
opensuse/leap
15.1
wireshark/wireshark
2.6.0 - 2.6.10
Published
Sep 15, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026