CVE-2019-13619

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.2, 2.6.0 to 2.6.9, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.15, the ASN.1 BER dissector and related dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/asn1.c by properly restricting buffer increments.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
Debian Linux: 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.15; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.9; from 3.0.0 through 3.0.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00068.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109293
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15870
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7e90aed666e809c0db5de9d1816802a7dcea28d9
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JY52XAC2UNC4X4ZPIXYMK5SVXV2PO5I3/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q4QVJALLGVVC7MBUT4B4SHQVDXGJKGI7/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4133-1/
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-20.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00068.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html

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