Resource management error in Wireshark

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU33467

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-2019-10903

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 DCERPC SPOOLSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dcerpc-spoolss.c by adding a boundary check.

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=15568
http://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=eafdcfa4b6d5187a5326442a82608ab03d9dddcb
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-2019-18.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.