FKIE_CVE-2024-24479

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-02-21 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:14
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A Buffer Overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the wsutil/to_str.c, and format_fractional_part_nsecs components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfdPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfdPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wireshark wireshark *
fedoraproject fedora 40
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