CVE-2019-10897
High
CVE-2019-10897
In Wireshark 3.0.0, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c by detecting cases in which the bit offset does not advance.
Exploit probability
4.6%
Published
April 9, 2019
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
3 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-10897
View original source
In Wireshark 3.0.0, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c by detecting cases in which the bit offset does not advance.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107836
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15553
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=00d5e9e9fb377f52ab7696f25c1dbc011ef0244d
- 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://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-11.html