CVE-2019-10897

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    CVE-2019-10897

    Published: 9 Apr 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html, https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=00d5e9e9fb377f52ab7696f25c1dbc011ef0244d, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107836, https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-11.html, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15553

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 937e33de60bcfcd6f68e7250e5e6914ae1d1e1e4
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
    None
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