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Wireshark : CVE-2019-16319 : Gryphon dissector infinite loop

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Wireshark : CVE-2019-16319 : Gryphon dissector infinite loop

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/15/2019
Created
09/21/2019
Added
09/20/2019
Modified
09/20/2019

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/epan/gryphon/packet-gryphon.c by checking for a message length of zero.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_6_11
  • wireshark-upgrade-3_0_4

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