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Wireshark : CVE-2019-5717 : P_MUL dissector crash

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Wireshark : CVE-2019-5717 : P_MUL dissector crash

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/08/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/10/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the P_MUL dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-p_mul.c by rejecting the invalid sequence number of zero.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-2_4_12
  • wireshark-upgrade-2_6_6

References

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