CVE-2019-9214

wireshark: null-deference read in RPCAP dissector

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 27, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the RPCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c by avoiding an attempted dereference of a NULL conversation.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 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 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference