CVE-2019-5718

NameCVE-2019-5718
DescriptionIn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4416-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wireshark (PTS)buster2.6.20-0+deb10u4fixed
buster (security)2.6.20-0+deb10u8fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye3.4.10-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)4.0.11-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie4.2.2-1fixed
sid4.2.2-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wiresharksourcejessie(not affected)
wiresharksourcestretch2.6.7-1~deb9u1DSA-4416-1
wiresharksource(unstable)2.6.6-1low

Notes

[jessie] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1746
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=cd09cb5cfb673beca3cce20b1d6a9bc67a134ae1
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-03.html

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