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wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18)

Published Apr 9, 2019

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the GSUP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_gsup.c by rejecting an invalid Information Element length.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat 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 Osmocom Generic Subscriber Update Protocol (GSUP).

Weaknesses (1)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 9, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Apr 5, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Mar 10, 2019