CVE-2024-24478 Denial of service in n/a
A disputed denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark's BGP dissector allows remote attackers to crash the application via malformed packets.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-24478?
CVE-2024-24478 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark Wireshark, published on 21 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the packet-bgp.c, dissect_bgp_open(tvbuff_t*tvb, proto_tree*tree, packet_info*pinfo), optlen components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.
Weakness: CWE-680
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24478?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wireshark Wireshark.
How do I fix CVE-2024-24478?
No fix published yet.
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-2024-24478 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24478 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Wireshark Wireshark
Sources
Also known as AZL-43822, AZL-44853, GHSA-q2p3-j458-f7vv.