high
7.5
CWE
674
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2019-12295

First published: Thu May 23 2019(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Wireshark Wireshark>=2.4.0<=2.4.14
Wireshark Wireshark>=2.6.0<=2.6.8
Wireshark Wireshark>=3.0.0<=3.0.1
Debian Debian Linux=9.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=16.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=18.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=19.04
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager=15.1.0
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager=15.1.0
F5 BIG-IP Analytics>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 BIG-IP Analytics>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 BIG-IP Analytics>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Analytics>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 BIG-IP Analytics>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Analytics=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager=15.1.0
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Domain Name System>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Domain Name System>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Domain Name System>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Domain Name System>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 Big-ip Domain Name System>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Domain Name System=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Edge Gateway>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Edge Gateway>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Edge Gateway>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Edge Gateway>=14.1.0<14.1.2
F5 Big-ip Edge Gateway>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Edge Gateway=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Fraud Protection Service>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Fraud Protection Service>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Fraud Protection Service>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Fraud Protection Service>=14.1.0<14.1.2
F5 Big-ip Fraud Protection Service>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Fraud Protection Service=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Global Traffic Manager>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Global Traffic Manager>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Global Traffic Manager>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Global Traffic Manager>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 Big-ip Global Traffic Manager>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Global Traffic Manager=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Link Controller>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Link Controller>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Link Controller>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Link Controller>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 Big-ip Link Controller>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Link Controller=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Local Traffic Manager>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Local Traffic Manager>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Local Traffic Manager>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Local Traffic Manager>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 Big-ip Local Traffic Manager>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Local Traffic Manager=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager=15.1.0
F5 Big-ip Webaccelerator>=12.1.3.6<12.1.5.3
F5 Big-ip Webaccelerator>=13.1.1.2<13.1.3.5
F5 Big-ip Webaccelerator>=14.0.0.3<=14.0.1
F5 Big-ip Webaccelerator>=14.1.0<14.1.2.8
F5 Big-ip Webaccelerator>=15.0.0<=15.0.1
F5 Big-ip Webaccelerator=15.1.0
debian/wireshark
3.4.10-0+deb11u1
3.4.16-0+deb11u1
4.0.11-1~deb12u1
4.4.0-1
4.4.1-1

Remedy

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15778

Remedy

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=7b6e197da4c497e229ed3ebf6952bae5c426a820

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