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

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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
04/09/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/15/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

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(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-3_0_1

References

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