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CVE-2019-5718
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…
Medium5.5EPSS 1.4%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 106482 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cd09cb5cfb673beca3cce20b1d6a9bc67a134ae1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4416 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20190324 [SECURITY] [DSA 4416-1] wireshark security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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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