# CVE-2019-13619: In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.2, 2.6.0 to 2.6.9, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.15, the ASN.1 BER dissector and related dissectors could crash.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-07-17 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.2, 2.6.0 to 2.6.9, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.15, the ASN.1 BER dissector and related dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/asn1.c by properly restricting buffer increments.

## What to do

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## References

- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15870
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-20.html
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7e90aed666e809c0db5de9d1816802a7dcea28d9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109293
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00068.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JY52XAC2UNC4X4ZPIXYMK5SVXV2PO5I3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q4QVJALLGVVC7MBUT4B4SHQVDXGJKGI7/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4133-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html

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