# CVE-2019-5718: In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could crash.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-01-08 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/charsets.c by adding a get_t61_string length check.

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## References

- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15373
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106482
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cd09cb5cfb673beca3cce20b1d6a9bc67a134ae1
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-03.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/35
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html

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