SB2019120502 - Denial of service in Wireshark
Published: December 5, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019120502
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19553)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in CMS dissector. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted traffic or pass a specially crafted file to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.