CVE-2019-9209

wireshark: Stack-based off-by-one buffer overflow in dissect_ber_GeneralizedTime

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

7.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 25, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the ASN.1 BER and related dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c by preventing a buffer overflow associated with excessive digits in time values.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This issue affects the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 · 7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow