Vulnerability · Published Feb 21, 2024 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-24479
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity buffer overflow in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 29.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
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 wsutil/to_str.c, and format_fractional_part_nsecs 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-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfd
- https://gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78
- FEDORA-2024-4115ab9959 vendor-advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/