CVE-2019-5717 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 through 2.4.11, where a crafted P_MUL dissector could cause the application to crash. This issue, categorized as CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating that an attacker could achieve a high impact on availability with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.4.0, <= 2.4.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.6.0, <= 2.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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