CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2019-12295
In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-674
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- f5:big-ip_access_policy_manager
- f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager
- f5:big-ip_analytics
- f5:big-ip_application_acceleration_manager
- f5:big-ip_application_security_manager
- f5:big-ip_domain_name_system
- f5:big-ip_edge_gateway
- f5:big-ip_fraud_protection_service
- f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager
- f5:big-ip_link_controller
- f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager
- f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager
- f5:big-ip_webaccelerator
- wireshark:wireshark
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108464
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15778
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7b6e197da4c497e229ed3ebf6952bae5c426a820
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00036.html
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K06725231