Vulnerability · Published Feb 21, 2024 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-24476
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity memory corruption in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 70% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 29.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A buffer overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the pan/addr_resolv.c, and ws_manuf_lookup_str(), size components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19344
- https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/108217f4bb1afb8b25fc705c2722b3e328b1ad78
- https://gist.github.com/1047524396/369ba0ccffe255cf8142208b6142be2b
- FEDORA-2024-4115ab9959 vendor-advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/