SB2019040922 - Resource management error in Wireshark
Published: April 9, 2019 Updated: August 3, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019040922
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
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) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10897)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In Wireshark 3.0.0, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c by detecting cases in which the bit offset does not advance.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107836
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15553
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=00d5e9e9fb377f52ab7696f25c1dbc011ef0244d
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R/
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-11.html