Resource management error in Wireshark - CVE-2019-12295

Vulnerability identifier: #VU20968

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12295

CWE-ID: CWE-399

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to unspecified error when processing untrusted data in the Wireshark dissection engine in epan/packet.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim to view the malformed packet trace file and crash the application.

Wireshark
wireshark (Ubuntu package)
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
wireshark-devel
wireshark-help
wireshark-debugsource
wireshark-debuginfo
BIG-IP
openEuler

Install updates from vendor's website.

Wireshark - addressed in versions 2.4.15, 2.6.9, 3.0.2
wireshark (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0, 2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0, 2.6.10-1~ubuntu19.04.0
wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 2.6.9-r0
wireshark - update to 2.6.2-20
wireshark-devel - update to 2.6.2-20
wireshark-help - update to 2.6.2-20
wireshark-debugsource - update to 2.6.2-20
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 2.6.2-20

• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=7b6e197da4c497e229ed3ebf6952bae5c426a820
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-19.html

• Denial of service in Wireshark
• Denial of service in F5 Networks BIG-IP Wireshark/tshark component
• Ubuntu update for Wireshark
• Resource management error in wireshark (Alpine package)
• openEuler update for wireshark