CVE-2019-9209

MEDIUM

Wireshark 2.4.0-2.4.12 and 2.6.0-2.6.6 - Denial of Service via ASN.1 BER Time Value Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the ASN.1 BER and related dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c by preventing a buffer overflow associated with excessive digits in time values.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107203
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15447
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, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00031.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00007.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00027.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0140
EPSS Percentile 68.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-193 CWE-787
Status published
Products (9)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
opensuse/leap 15.0
opensuse/leap 15.1
opensuse/leap 42.3
wireshark/wireshark 2.4.0 - 2.4.12
Published Feb 28, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026