vulnerability

Wireshark : CVE-2019-10897 : IEEE 802.11 dissector infinite loop

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 9, 2019
Added
Apr 15, 2019
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c by detecting cases in which the bit offset does not advance.

Solution

wireshark-upgrade-3_0_1
Title
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