CVE-2019-10896

Publication date 9 April 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.13, 2.6.0 to 2.6.7, and 3.0.0, the DOF dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-dof.c by properly handling generated IID and OID bytes.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wireshark	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.10.0
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.6.8-1~ubuntu18.04.0
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.6.8-1~ubuntu16.04.0
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.6.8-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm1

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3986-1
Wireshark vulnerabilities
16 May 2019