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CVE-2019-5718

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In 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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.11; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.5

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106482
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cd09cb5cfb673beca3cce20b1d6a9bc67a134ae1
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-03.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106482
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cd09cb5cfb673beca3cce20b1d6a9bc67a134ae1

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