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CVE-2019-10898

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the GSUP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_gsup.c by rejecting an invalid Information Element length.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 3.0.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107836
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15585
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f80b7d1b279fb6c13f640019a1bbc42b18bf7469
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R/
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-12.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107836
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15585
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f80b7d1b279fb6c13f640019a1bbc42b18bf7469
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5/

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