CVE-2019-5718

wireshark: out-of-bounds read in get_t61_string() in epan/charsets.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 8, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read