CVE-2019-5718
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.17%
Description
In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/charsets.c by adding a get_t61_string length check.
How to fix CVE-2019-5718
To remediate CVE-2019-5718, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/wireshark—upgrade to 2.6.6-1 or later
Is CVE-2019-5718 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.6.6-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |