Resource management error in Wireshark

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU33462

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-2019-10894

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the GSS-API dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gssapi.c by ensuring that a valid dissector is called.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Wireshark: 3.0.0

Fedora: 3.0.0 - 30

External links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00022.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/107834
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15613
http://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=b20e5d8aae2580e29c83ddaf0b6b2e640603e4aa
http://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00034.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R/
http://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-14.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.