CVE-2019-16319
High
CVE-2019-16319
In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/epan/gryphon/packet-gryphon.c by checking for a message length of zero.
Exploit probability
3.8%
Published
September 15, 2019
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
43 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-16319
View original source
In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/epan/gryphon/packet-gryphon.c by checking for a message length of zero.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16020
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=02ddd49885c6a09e936a76aceb726ed06539704a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-21.html