CVE-2019-9214

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the RPCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c by avoiding an attempted dereference of a NULL conversation.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.12; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.6

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00007.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/107203
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15536
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c557bb0910be271e49563756411a690a1bc53ce5
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3986-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-08.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00027.html

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