CVE-2019-10900 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-10900?

CVE-2019-10900 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 9 Apr 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the Rbm dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/file-rbm.c by handling unknown object types safely.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10900?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10900?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-10900 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10900 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-94rj-cgwh-p385.