CVE-2019-12295 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-12295?

CVE-2019-12295 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 May 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 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.

Weakness: CWE-674

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-12295?

It affects 16 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager, F5 Big-Ip Analytics, F5 Big-Ip Application Acceleration Manager and 10 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-12295?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2019-12295 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-12295 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12295, GHSA-6c7j-gh7x-rw3h, OESA-2021-1285, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12295.