#VU33466 NULL pointer dereference in Wireshark and Fedora - CVE-2019-10901
Published: April 9, 2019 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33466
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10901
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Wireshark
Fedora
Wireshark
Fedora
Software vendor:
Wireshark.org
Fedoraproject
Wireshark.org
Fedoraproject
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 LDSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by handling file digests properly.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
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
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15620
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=cf801a25074f76dc3ae62d8ec53ace75f56ce2cd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00034.html
- 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://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-17.html