CVE-2019-5716

MEDIUM

Wireshark 2.6.0-2.6.5 - Denial of Service in 6LoWPAN Dissector

Title source: llm

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5, the 6LoWPAN dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-6lowpan.c by avoiding use of a TVB before its creation.

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Patch x_refsource_misc

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2b2eea1793dbff813896e1ae9dff1bedb39ee010

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00022.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106482

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-01.html

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15217

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0027

EPSS Percentile 50.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 8.0

debian/debian_linux 9.0

wireshark/wireshark 2.6.0 - 2.6.5

Published Jan 08, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026