CVE-2024-24476
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Memory corruption
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
A buffer overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the pan/addr_resolv.c, and ws_manuf_lookup_str(), size components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/108217f4bb1afb8b25fc705c2722b3e328b1ad78 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/108217f4bb1afb8b25fc705c2722b3e328b1ad78Patch
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19344Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/1047524396/369ba0ccffe255cf8142208b6142be2bAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/