CVE-2019-12295

NameCVE-2019-12295
DescriptionIn Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2423-1, DLA-2547-1, ELA-126-1
Debian Bugs929446

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wireshark (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19vulnerable
stretch (security)2.6.20-0+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.6.20-0+deb9u7fixed
buster2.6.20-0+deb10u4fixed
buster (security)2.6.20-0+deb10u8fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye3.4.10-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm4.0.11-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie4.2.2-1fixed
sid4.2.2-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wiresharksourcewheezy1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u18ELA-126-1
wiresharksourcestretch2.6.20-0+deb9u1DLA-2547-1
wiresharksource(unstable)2.6.8-1.1low929446

Notes

[jessie] - wireshark <postponed> (Minor, can be fixed along in a future update)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15778
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=7b6e197da4c497e229ed3ebf6952bae5c426a820
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-19.html

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