CVE-2019-10898 — Infinite Loop in Wireshark

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Fedoraproject FedoraWiresharkDebian Wireshark
Timeline
PublishedApr 9
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the GSUP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_gsup.c by rejecting an invalid Information Element length.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

Also affects: Fedora 29, 30

Patches

Patch: bugs.wireshark.org ↗Patch: bugs.wireshark.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-5w87-wvp6-xg53: In Wireshark 3↗2022-05-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18)↗2019-03-10
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Debian
CVE-2019-10898: wireshark - In Wireshark 3.0.0, the GSUP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was ...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-10898 wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18)↗2019-04-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-10898 wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18) [fedora-all]↗2019-04-09
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