CVE-2019-5718

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    CVE-2019-5718

    Published: 8 Jan 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/charsets.c by adding a get_t61_string length check.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html, https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cd09cb5cfb673beca3cce20b1d6a9bc67a134ae1, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106482, https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35, https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416, https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-03.html, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 9be0fa500da594ed01baf3214642838d22811c90
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    wireshark-2.4.11
    wireshark-2.4.10
    wireshark-2.4.9
    wireshark-2.4.8
    wireshark-2.4.7
    wireshark-2.4.6
    wireshark-2.4.5
    wireshark-2.4.4
    wireshark-2.4.3
    wireshark-2.4.2
    wireshark-2.4.1
    wireshark-2.4.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High