# CVE-2019-16319: In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-09-15 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.3 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.10, the Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in plugins/epan/gryphon/packet-gryphon.c by checking for a message length of zero.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-21.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16020
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=02ddd49885c6a09e936a76aceb726ed06539704a
- 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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