SB2019022818 - NULL pointer dereference in Debian Linux
Published: February 28, 2019 Updated: August 4, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019022818
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9208)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the TCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/asn1/tcap/tcap.cnf by avoiding NULL pointer dereferences. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107203
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15464
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=3d1b8004ed3a07422ca5d4e4ee8097150b934fd2
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-07.html