In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the ASN.1 BER dissector could crash. This was addressed in…

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.15, the ASN.1 BER dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c by ensuring that length values do not exceed the maximum signed integer.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-190 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-190 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9402f2f80c6bc7d25178a0875c5a1f5ee36361db (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1041608 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20180729 [SECURITY] [DLA 1451-1] wireshark security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-37.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 104847 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14682 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0362 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 09:21 UTC.