Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2019-9214 |
CWE-ID | CWE-476 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Debian Linux Operating systems & Components / Operating system |
Vendor | Debian |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU33486
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9214
CWE-ID:
CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the RPCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c by avoiding an attempted dereference of a NULL conversation.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsDebian Linux: 9.0
CPE2.3 External linkshttp://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
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15536
http://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=c557bb0910be271e49563756411a690a1bc53ce5
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35
http://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
http://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-08.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.