CVE-2019-10901

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the LDSS dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ldss.c by handling file digests properly.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1, 42.3
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.13; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.7; 3.0.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107834
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15620
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cf801a25074f76dc3ae62d8ec53ace75f56ce2cd
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00034.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00036.html
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://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-17.html

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