Resource management error in Wireshark - CVE-2019-10898
Published: April 9, 2019 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33218
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10898
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In Wireshark 3.0.0, the GSUP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_gsup.c by rejecting an invalid Information Element length.
Affected software
Wireshark
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
Opensuse
Fedora
wireshark (Alpine package)
wireshark
Opensuse
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10898
Install update from vendor's website.
Wireshark - update to 3.0.1
wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 3.0.1-r0
wireshark - addressed in versions 3.0.1-1.fc29, 3.0.1-1.fc30
wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 3.0.1-r0
wireshark - addressed in versions 3.0.1-1.fc29, 3.0.1-1.fc30
External 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=15585
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f80b7d1b279fb6c13f640019a1bbc42b18bf7469
- 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-2019-12.html