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CVE-2024-24479

A Buffer Overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the wsutil/to_str.c, and format_fractional_part_nsecs components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

Published

2024-02-21T19:15:09.077

Last Modified

2025-04-14T12:55:40.677

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-120

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wireshark	wireshark	< 4.2.0	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	40	Yes

References

https://gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfd Patch ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/ Mailing List ([email protected])
https://gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfd Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/ Mailing List (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)