CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-24479
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-02-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (< 4.2.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 40
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfd Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/ Mailing List
- https://gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfd Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/ lists.fedoraproject.org