Vulnerability CVE-2019-16319
Published: 2019-09-15

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Wireshark -> Wireshark 

 References:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16020
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=02ddd49885c6a09e936a76aceb726ed06539704a
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-21.html
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