CVE-2019-5718

MEDIUM

Wireshark < 2.4.11 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106482
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

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-125
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
wireshark/wireshark 2.4.0 - 2.4.11
Published Jan 08, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026