CVE-2024-24478

Published: 21 February 2024

** DISPUTED ** An issue in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the packet-bgp.c, dissect_bgp_open(tvbuff_t*tvb, proto_tree*tree, packet_info*pinfo), optlen components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
wireshark Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
	noble	Needs triage
	trusty	Needs triage
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needs triage

References

https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/80a4dc55f4d2fa33c2b36a99406500726d3faaef
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19347
https://gist.github.com/1047524396/e82c55147cd3cb62ef20cbdb0ec83694
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24478
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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