| Name | CVE-2019-12295 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 929446 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u14 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2.6.7-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
| buster | 2.6.8-1.1 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 2.6.10-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.6.8-1.1 | low | 929446 |
[stretch] - wireshark <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - wireshark <postponed> (Minor, can be fixed along in a future update)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15778
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=7b6e197da4c497e229ed3ebf6952bae5c426a820
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-19.html