CVE-2019-10900

wireshark: Rbm dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-13)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 18, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the Rbm dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/file-rbm.c by handling unknown object types safely.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as they did not include support for Ruby Marshal Object (RBM).

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')