Resource management error in Wireshark



| Updated: 2020-08-04
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-10896
CWE-ID CWE-399
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Wireshark
Server applications / IDS/IPS systems, Firewalls and proxy servers

Fedora
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

Vendor Wireshark.org
Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU33464

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10896

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the DOF dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dof.c by properly handling generated IID and OID bytes.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Wireshark: 3.0.0

Fedora: 3.0.0 - 30

CPE2.3 External links

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00022.html
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00027.html
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107834
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15617
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=441b6d9071d6341e58dfe10719375489c5b8e3f0
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-15.html


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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